Pleasant View Schoolhouse

I am loving this book,  The Power of Habit . It's making me rethink all of my routines and rituals, wondering how I can harness them...

Whew. This is just a busy, busy season. Travel, wedding, giant party, whole-house renovation, work. My idea is that all of it will be ...

Miss Manners hard at work getting out the holiday edition of her column, addressing all her readers' questions about how much they c...

This has been issuing forth from the typewriter lately. The cats submit their questions and Miss Manners answers. Above: "When can ...

" . . . Most glamorous women I know are walkers; they have made walking a pleasant habit and part of their busy lives for which they a...

Sometimes I dream that there's a room in my house, or a building downtown, that I've never seen before. It's always a wo...

Mid-afternoon in mid-June. A day full of work, laundry, errands, and hospitality.  I've moved my work computer upstairs into th...

I continue to love my Filofaxes. I have a Original Nude Patent for work, this Original Duck Egg Patent for personal projects, and a ras...

I'm very happy with my current system--a notebook that sits out on the corner of the kitchen island. On Sunday afternoon I write out...

Felix recommends  a little reading  to those of us turning away from distraction.

Much reading, thinking, and discussion going on in the house about the issues surrounding Distraction by Technology. Lots of practicing ...

 . . . hello, and Lenten blessings. I am giving up internet distraction for the forty days. I will post on my blog and check my email, ...

Periodically Daisy puts out an issue of our home newspaper called the Animal Times . Today Clara, in a masterful stroke of procrastination,...

Whew. This is just a busy, busy season. Travel, wedding, giant party, whole-house renovation, work. My idea is that all of it will be ...

"It is difficult to find anyone in our culture who will respect us when we suffer. We live in a time when everyone's goal is to ...

The retro-style grade book makes it official--this week, Clara starts teaching Freshman Comp. The Fundamentals Of, I believe. It's ...

My fellow believers, be encouraged, and do not believe that all is lost in Millennialland. Around the country and the globe ther...

The big blessings are easy to name. Today I was thinking about the ones a step down, built into the infrastructure of my small-town...

Today a reader asked for some inspiration to help her through the demanding years when it's you and a bunch of little people trying...

Once I have  planned the month  it's time to make all those things happen by plugging them into actual weeks and days.  Some th...