I Can’t Because : Creative Blockage
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I Can’t Because : Creative Blockage

ByShalagh Hogan

The baby took an unexpected nap in her highchair. I had just finished wiping down the kitchen and realized my opportunity to get to redecorating was now. Since Christmas had been stripped, decorations remained un-replaced. I raced up the steep attic steps to fetch my decorative stuff from the various bins. The house desperately needs…

Winter Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Winter Will Continue Until Morale Improves

ByShalagh Hogan

Like in earlier years, the week of Martin Luther King’s Birthday holiday nearly took me out of the game. I had prepared myself for the agonizing three-day weekend. But was ill prepared for the surprise snow days that created a 10 day holiday. I begged people for playdates with no results. My kid got so…

The Joys of Housework
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The Joys of Housework

ByShalagh Hogan

I honestly love doing housework. There’s a rhythm and a worthiness in accomplishing the tasks that encompass cleaning and organizing and keeping the household running smoothly. Because keeping house is like maintaining an organic machine. There are systems and rhythms. And just like when you don’t exercise, when you don’t dust for a while there’s…
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Buried Under Bookmarks

ByShalagh Hogan

Like my mother before me, I’m a collector of resources. Although my magazine collection is donated now, I still have a hidden collection. Bookmarks on the computer. I’ve been collecting them for some time now. They’re harmless enough. Press save and they get stored. But when you open up that folder, they spill out. Their…

Reformation of a Clutterbug
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Reformation of a Clutterbug

ByShalagh Hogan

This article was first published in August, 2009 on Divine Caroline. This is pre-blog and the second article I wrote and published on-line. It speaks to what I mentioned in my yard sale pieces about that last yard sale I had after I shut my shop down. As a housewarming gift, our friends rented us…

Shoveling Stuff Off My Platter
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Shoveling Stuff Off My Platter

ByShalagh Hogan

My intention was to rid myself of all the to-do’s befuddling my mind before I had this baby. I wrote this post about the baby to do list. Not the avoidance of the to-do list that I spoke of here. But there was more going on behind the scenes than gathering baby supplies and completing…