Last week I asked you for your favorite blogs, and you gave me so many to explore. Thanks for your feedback! I’m already familiar with some of them, but it’s exciting to find a few new ones. For anyone looking for new reading material, here’s a small sampling of the recommendations, described in the bloggers’…
Resourcefulness – (n.) The ability to come up with clever ways to solve a problem. The bad economy hasn’t been easy for my family, or for many of my friends and neighbors. But these lean times are forcing many of us to hone an incredibly useful skill: resourcefulness. In the last few years, my husband…
My family has watched our health insurance deductible go from $100 per person two years ago to $1500 per person this year. We pay more out-of -pocket each month and get less coverage than we used to. I know we’re not alone. Forty-six million Americans have no health insurance at all, and at least 25…
Shareable.net published my article about three different bike cooperatives today. It starts: Over a hundred years ago, H.G. Wells famously quipped, “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” When Wells wrote his novel Cycles of Change in 1896, the world was in the…
Sometimes, just occasionally, I’ve been known to go a tad over-the-top when it comes to do-it-yourselfing. My husband’s a good sport, but he’s been a much-needed balance when I come up with a new lofty idea. For instance, several years ago, he (and every gardening book I read) warned me that I should start with…