This post was originally published December 31, 2014. As we count down the final hours of 2014, some will be happy to see the old year end. For me and for my family, however, 2014 was a very good year. So many positive things happened […]

This post was originally published November 22, 2014. We have done very little renovating or minimizing over the past couple of months. Last spring, I competed in the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C. About a week later, in a residual runner’s high, […]

This post was originally published May 16, 2014. Our new garden beds! We decided to expand our garden beds this year. Here are last year’s garden beds as they looked this past winter: We built these beds three years ago. The boards had deteriorated to […]