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No-Car Experiment

Nantucket, MA
Housewife Challenges
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February 17, 2012

Dalai Lama

Chris found this Dalai Lama quote on Reddit and I thought it was worth sharing between working on websites. And also, there's this: We are following through with trying to sell our car, as per our New Year's resolution to simplify and[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Voluntary Simplicity
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December 21, 2011

A Month With No Car

Monday marked the end of our self-imposed carless month, and we celebrated with a drive to the landfill to take last month's trash.I'm not sure that I've mentioned it before, but one of the happy side-effects of buying very little pre-made foods[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Voluntary Simplicity
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December 1, 2011

Voluntary Simplicity: An Overview and Environmental Argument for Adoption

As we consider the necessity of a car here on our little island, now ten days into our great experiment, I've been thinking a lot more about voluntary simplicity and living lightly upon the earth, not just for environmental reasons, but also f[...]

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Nantucket, MA
30 Days of Thanks
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November 22, 2011

30 Days of Thanks: Little Things

Today, I'm thankful for the wonderful comments I've been receiving from friends, family, and readers on my blog, Facebook, and via email about selling (or not) our car.  I really appreciate getting a third party perspective on all this, plus i[...]

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Nantucket, MA
30 Days of Thanks, Voluntary Simplicity
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November 21, 2011

The Great Experiment & 30 Days of Thanks

Today, Occupy Wall Street called on borrowers to stop repaying their student loans.  The All Things Considered story that I heard this evening seemed so timely, as we just spent the entire weekend once again going over our budget with a fine-to[...]

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Life Right Now

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I started a podcast with Chris and our business partner, Steve! We'll be releasing episodes every Monday on website accessibility and craft beverages. Check it out or subscribe at AccessibilityCraft.com.

#podcast #podcaster #accessibility #accessibilityforall #accessibilitymatters #accessible #a11y #WordPress #webdesign #webdevelopment #websitedesign #ux #usability

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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. 💕

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. 😂
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