Author: Balmy
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Rhubarb Pie, AKA How to Connect With Your Neighbors 🙂
To connect with others isn’t always easy. It could be due to not trusting others, or feeling as though you’re not likeable or interesting enough. So you let others beat you into the mold who they think you should be so they can feel better about themselves and hopefully you feel accepted. But this leaves…
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Craft & Quality Are Not Mutually Exclusive to Name-Brands
This is something that I wrestled with when I was younger, and the basis for my former blog, No Labels Living (thanks to the 10 people that read it(;). This is because, the family I grew up in was image obsessed. We were more concerned with how we looked to other people and eachother than…
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Job Search & Careers: What I’ve Learned So Far About Navigating the Workplace
This is not a comprehensive list about your job search. Also, politics in the workplace aren’t always fair. If you understand this, and develop a sense of humor, you’ll be that much closer to finding and thriving in your new work place : ) I suppose a job search starts with finding out what moves…
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Design & Spirit: How Cultivating Your Style Fills Your Soul
Style and self expression. I imagine if you ask the average person if they know what they like, they would say they do. But if asked, I think they may be hard pressed to pinpoint why what they like makes them happy. Knowing why may seem easy, but it most definitely is not. I’ve noticed…
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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or so drug…