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Run Thee Amok With Tulle

Run Thee Amok With Tulle

I’m not talking about “casual heedlessness” here. It is impossible to be unhappy in a tutu.

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Practices: Potters

Practices: Potters

Potters not only bring an element of art into everyday life, they make everyday things more human. There’s a connection between the maker and the user.

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The Year in Numbers

The Year in Numbers

Things like this make my head hurt.
I should mention that I’m not good at math.

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Holiday Edition: Susan

Holiday Edition: Susan

My most favorite New Year’s Eve ever, and the one I try to replicate whenever possible, was the year my morose cartoonist boyfriend dumped me right around Christmas.

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Unconditional Love. Also, No Mice.

Unconditional Love. Also, No Mice.

When did we become so pragmatic? At what point did we start needing to see a tangible benefit to things?

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Thanks Giving

Thanks Giving

“Thanksgiving” is an in-and-out kind of word. It inhales thanks and exhales giving. It can’t only do one, or it will pass out in the turnips.

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Making Excuses

Making Excuses

Do I “feel the absence of” a functioning kitchen?
Please, have you seen my kitchen? Blech. You bet I feel it.

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Zen and The Art of Loop-de-Loop

Zen and The Art of Loop-de-Loop

How I learned to have too much fun to doubt myself

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Abundance: The Zucchini Principle

Abundance: The Zucchini Principle

Don’t ask me how it works. It’s quantum physics.

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In Which I Am Fashionable

In Which I Am Fashionable

A long weekend at a Zen monastery, no visual statements to distract me, I stopped seeing myself as my clothes. BY COLUMNIST SUSAN BLOOD

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Love Fest or Hornet’s Nest?

Love Fest or Hornet’s Nest?

Being patient might look like you’re taking it easy on somebody else, but it’s really taking it easy on yourself.

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Life is Like an Eye Exam

Life is Like an Eye Exam

I could be wrong but I think if all our decisions are love-based instead of fear-based, we find ourselves in less of a blur. Someone please try that and let the rest of us know how it goes. By Susan Blood.

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