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Little Happinesses: Book #6

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Sunday, October 30, 2011. Just a little gem from one of my literary wanderings:. Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion. Regardless of whether Lincoln, Douglass, Austen, and Dickens are really the four most enduring intellectuals of the English language, the part about self-education wrought of reading made me smile. Man, I'm going to be so smart by the end of this hundred-book year! Ps: again, find more books and thoughts about books on Goodreads. And keep those recommendations coming! Dried cranberries, spi...

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Little Happinesses: Does this apply to you?

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Monday, August 2, 2010. Does this apply to you? Imagine you are trying to grow tomatoes. You believe that you'll get the juiciest, most succulent tomatoes if you prep your soil with ample compost and then water your bushes every evening, right before sunset, for 50 minutes. You've done this every year, and your tomatoes seem to be fine. Faced with the evidence, you'd amend your previous watering behavior, right? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Run, bike, teach, repeat. View my complete profile. I'm p...

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Little Happinesses: planty

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Friday, January 6, 2012. I started a new project last week: master gardening. It's going to be an 11-week class from the Oregon State University extension service in which I learn a humongous amount about horticulture- botany, plant propagation, water and soil quality, vegetable gardening, houseplants, landscape plants, pest management and mitigating plant disease, basic entomology, sustainable weed management, stuff about pesticides and herbicides and on and on and on. It's going to be amazing. Run, bik...

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Little Happinesses: quite right

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Saturday, February 11, 2012. I just finished Island. By Aldous Huxley (yep, that's right, the Brave New World. Fellow), and can't help but share a little gem of it. You [the people of Pala] seemed to have solved your economic problems pretty successfully.". But problems of society aside, it's a pretty rad book. And nice to read something that, though an indictment of Western society, also presents the possibility of a positive alternative for once, doesn't just leave us with all doom and gloom. N...I'm p...

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Little Happinesses: the wanderlust, incurable

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The wanderlust, incurable. Wanderlust, old friend, welcome back. Bienvenue au club. :-) Cest pour cette raison que je cours, je voyage, je grimpe.bref, que jexplore. Oui, il est dur-dur detre prof, a linterieur toute la journée . mais libre tout lété! Un compromis qui nest pas mal. April 21, 2010 at 9:07 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Run, bike, teach, repeat. View my complete profile. Just In Case For Some Odd Reason You Were Wonderin. My Life in Pictures. For the thi...

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Little Happinesses: two blogs is weird

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Thursday, March 29, 2012. Two blogs is weird. Back in the day, I decided that I wasn't going to use this blog anymore, because I was going to start a new, more thematic one: www.carfreerambles.org. Well, over time I guess it's morphed into me using two blogs, this one for more life-and-times kind of stuff, and carfreerambles for more bikey kind of stuff. Which is weird sometimes. What if bikey stuff is also life-and-timesy? What if life-and-timesy is about my bike? And probably not tonight. But soon:).

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Little Happinesses: variety is the spice of life

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Variety is the spice of life. I think the biggest reason I'm so happy is variety. I know this doesn't work for everyone, but endless monotony of schedule, of obligations, of routine makes me a crazy person- so now that my time is not necessarily less regimented but is less structuredly. Regimented, I'm a very happy stasia. I'm so, so glad that life looks the way it does right now. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Run, bike, teach, repeat. View my complete profile. Just In Case...

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Little Happinesses: man oh man

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Thursday, March 1, 2012. Have I mentioned recently that I'm the luckiest stasia in the world? Well, pardon this self-indulgent post;). And then, the zoo, the loveliest job in the world, working with awesome teens, teaching little kids about nature, getting to do awesome things like go out and collect all kinds of winter twigs to bring to classes so kids can learn about buds and what plants do in the winter. Have I mentioned I love this job? Life in Portland is so good, and I'm so grateful. Dried cranberr...

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Little Happinesses: Poland!

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Friday, December 9, 2011. It's funny, too, to be somewhere where history is so. historical. I mean, nowhere in the US can you walk into a cathedral that's been standing since the 1300s. We've got our own kind of history, but it was fun in Poland to, say, go see the college where Copernicus went to school:. And the hotel we stayed at in Krakow was just a ten-minute walk from the old Wawel Castle (which apparently is worthy of nighttime illumination):. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wow, it’s be...

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Little Happinesses: 2012. And books.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012. While I firmly believe that 2012 is going to be a great year, it's gotten off to a somewhat rocky start. Or maybe an ambivalent start, in the sense of encompassing both one thing and its opposite. On the other hand, since James and I got back from Honduras, I've been sick not once but twice, which puts quite a damper on my general enjoyment of life. I hate being sick! Behind. And, whatever, like I said, it's a totally arbitrary and self-imposed thing that I won't stress out...