This post was originally published January 29, 2015. Hello, everyone! It’s time to play What’s Under Jill’s Kitchen Sink? (Theme music. Cheers and applause from the audience.) So, some of you may remember that I was planning on cleaning out the cabinet under my kitchen […]

This post was originally published January 21, 2015. My new favorite blog that I have discovered is Katy Wolk-Stanley’s The Non-Consumer Advocate. Among other things, Katy advocates buying used rather than new whenever possible and has inspired countless others to do the same. Her blog […]

This post was originally published January 19, 2015. This weekend, we went visit my parents in East Tennessee. My dad retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and they live just outside the Oak Ridge city limits. Now, as you may recall from previous posts, Oak […]

This post was originally published January 9, 2015. The new year is just over a week old, and I return to work on Monday. I have been on vacation since January 1. I like to take time off the first week of the new year, […]

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 December 26, 2014. Though Christmas is upon us, we are just now getting started in earnest with the Christmas decorating! One of my plans is to go through all our decorations and ornaments as we take them out (and later […]