Wednesday, December 29, 2021

2021 A Year In Review, Environmentally Speaking

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'Tis the season, this week between December 25th and January 1st, where all sorts of lists start coming out. The bests and the worsts. T...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

May your Holidays be Full of Warmth and Cheer

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 Using this space and place today to wish you warmth, cheer, joy, love, and laughter.  Thank you for the gift of traveling alongside GTG all...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

#Twelvetide & Purposeful Kindness

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12 is is one of those recurring, symbolic number--especially during the holidays. There's the carol: "12 Days of Christmas" Th...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

A Wrapping We Will Go

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If you celebrate Christmas, you are in that final stretch. With any luck, you have found every perfect gift item for everyone on your list. ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Gifts That Are Light On Your Wallet AND The Planet

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As we all know, 'tis the season for gift giving and shopping . If you are still doing both, this may be just what you need. I ran across...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Decisions, Decisions: Christmas Tree Edition

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Choice. The world is full of it, and we are always making them. Sometimes they’re simple and merely a matter of taste: vanilla -vs- chocolat...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Seasonal Shopping: Gifts That Give Back

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Finding that “just right” gift can be tough.  Now, during this early- moving to mid-December time, the pressure is on. Email inboxes are fil...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

A Clean Garage...and a Box of Legos!

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Every season or two, it seems that garage of ours gets out of control and needs some major taming. Two weekends ago was our magical moment f...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

1000 Hours Outside Revisited

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I've written about the concept of " 1000 hours outside " before, and for the last several summers, I've tracked my time ou...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Floating Faucet of Plastic

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Clamshell carryout containers. Red solo cups. Plastic bottles. Straws. Take-out utensils: Forks, Sporks, Spoons, Knives....all wrapped in pl...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving 2021

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Cheers to you and yours this Thanksgiving season. May your gratitude list be long this year, and may your health be well.  If you are lookin...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Planning Your Environmentally-Friendly Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of family togetherness. But as with everything, it requires a little bit of planning. Here's an infogra...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Birthdays & "Be Kind"

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Birthdays always put a smile on your face. Especially if you are a kid--what a jubilant day! Your day! But even as an adult, and even as tho...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Hydrotherapy for the Win

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I found myself at a hotel overnight about a month ago. More importantly, I found myself in my happy place.  The pool. Our backyard above gro...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

TED Countdown Global Livestream

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On October 30th the meetings of the minds of TED came together to host and post TED Countdown, a global climate livestream. From their site ...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Daylight Saving Time -- November 7, 2021

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'Tis the season... not yet the holiday season, but that post-Halloween time when it's so crazy-dark in the morning, making it hard f...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Books & Podcasts for Parenting During this Tech-Centric Time

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I'm always a fan of a good podcast as we'll as a good book. That's why I was particularly struck with the latest email I got fro...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Happy Halloween.... And Pumpkin Planning Ahead for November!

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Have a mighty keen, safety scene, candy cuisine, super duper Halloween! Be safe out there this Halloween weekend! Come Monday.... Haunted ho...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Ode to Cheat Lake

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Earlier this month we had a 3 day weekend. 3 day weekends bring about the magic of that bonus time. More time to sleep, rest, and just “be.”...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

'Tis the Season to Be Carving

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Every day of October is one day closer to Halloween. It's a different kind of "decking the halls" than you do in December, but...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Fall Foliage 2021

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Leaf Peeping. Color Touring. Finding (and photographing) the fall foliage. Chasing the colors of the leaves is a real thing. Here in later m...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Climate Change + Gender Equity = Global Solutions

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More and more I'm running across items that directly showcase environmental concerns as social justice concerns. The interconnectedness ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Blue Mind to the Rescue

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The day I wrote this, I had a really crappy day. One of those body shaking moments where I felt like I was going through my skin, bouncing o...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Survival of the Fittest

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We can thank Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory for enlightening us to the concept of "survival of the fittest." (Frequent...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

How is it October?

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Every day the world keeps turning, spinning on its axis, traveling around the sun.  Never is it more evident than when seasons begin to chan...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

Continuing to Make a Difference, One Act At A Time

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According to Wonderopolis , a video goes viral when it tops 5 million views, typically in a very short time and due to multiple shares on so...