Tag: Cozy Home
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Building a Firepit, Building Relationships: Cozying Up to a Fire
The older I get the more I realize that the things I enjoy the most are the cozy and simple things. There’s a line in a Jay-Z song that sums up how I feel, “I don’t want much, f’ I drove every car. Some nice cooked food, some nice clean drawers”. There are few times…
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Moving Day: How to Find the Items You will Actually Like for Your Home & Knowing Yourself Better for It
I just moved about two weeks ago. It was a stressful move, but also a heroic effort. My roommate and I moved two apartments worth of furniture in ten hours. I was a little sore the next day, but otherwise the move went smoothly. I didn’t have a lot of furniture. This helped. But this…
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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…