One of the best benefits of my new work from home, live in Hillsboro life is that I can take a mid-day walk every day if I choose…or, more accurately, fit it in.
I must admit that my time management skills often elude me and I find that it’s gotten too late or I feel too guilty that I haven’t accomplished enough in my work day to justify the break. Yet, I know (and everyone who knows me well knows) that I must have my daily walk to be my best and to keep my world in perspective.
So, a lot of days (I want to claim most) I head out the door with one of the pups (occasionally with Roger and possibly all three pups) for a 3.7 or… Continue reading
Another book I picked up at the Portland Art Museum in September was “The Rescue Artist,” by Edward Dolnick.
An entertaining whodonit about the theft of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” from the National Gallery in Oslo, I’d put the book down in the middle–distracted by the myriad other things in my life–until NetFlicks delivered “Stolen,” a very weird documentary about the theft of $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
In 1990, thieves absconded with 13 masterpieces — including works by Rembrandt and Vermeer — from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, pulling off the greatest art heist in U.S. history. Rebecca Dreyfus’s investigative documentary delves into this modern mystery, piecing together clues gleaned from archival documents, art critics, historians, collectors and informants (both… Continue reading
Almost two years ago now, I gave my boyfriend (now husband) a subscription to Netflix.
His mother had moved in with him temporarily to recuperate after she had fallen and broken her hip. As a result, we were “grounded” for much of the winter with all three of us spending a lot of time together in the living room, her make-shift bedroom.
Netflix is a DVD rental service that allows members to maintain a list of—must-see—movies (recent releases and old-time favorites), documentaries, serialized television shows, and other programming (current inventory is something like 65,000 titles).
You can have as many as three disks at home for viewing; as soon as one is returned, another from the pending queue is immediately sent out to replace it. We… Continue reading
It seems everywhere I turn lately, I read a conversation about abundance. This may be a result of traveling in the world of coaching and working to “manifest” dreams for myself and others.
Maybe I’m finally tuning into something that’s been out there all along.
In any case, here is my acknowledged gratitude for the abundance I enjoyed this past weekend. Unexpected freebies everywhere I went:
- 10 lbs of bird seed at the feed store I’ve frequented for years
- a flu shot while dropping a package off at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- bag-covered meters for “no charge” holiday parking in downtown Hanover, NH
Serendipitous in all likelihood, yet the bounty was unexpected and delightful. I wish every day could be like that!
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