From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Project: Reflect

by Melissa on November 6, 2009

Project: Reflect
Find a new Project every weekend at Peace & Projects.
Here in the Midwest, the changing seasons beg for reflection. As autumn leaves begin to swirl, the summer that’s gone becomes defined by a memory of what happened, by the places we saw and the people we met.
This week, I was reminded to reflect while [...]

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Paying off Snowball with a debt snowball

by Melissa on November 5, 2009

The kids gave my debt a pet name: “Snowball.”
It was a fond reference to our new family vehicle: a pure white Subaru Forester.
The year was 2007 – Mr. Right and I had been married about a year.
For our annual camping trip to the Land of Do As You Please, we decided we needed a new [...]

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Eating for immunity

by Melissa on November 3, 2009

“Your kids are probably going to get the swine flu.”
This is not the phrase you want to hear from a doctor, especially after finding out both your kids have strep throat – which equals a drastically weakened immune system already.
If you haven’t heard, there is a lot of bad news about the flu these [...]

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