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Do You Use Your Family Heirlooms?

Do you have family heirlooms?  Maybe you have items generations old or maybe just handed down from your own childhood.  Are they out in the public space, being used and adored?  Or are they packed away for “someday” or even just to be handed down yet again?

Recently we found a bowl and plate set [...]

Reflections on Mother’s Day and the (statistical) Best Year of My Life

Our priest let us know this morning that Mother’s Day is the third mostly highly attended service of the year after Christmas and Easter.  I can totally understand that – there is magic in the idea that the whole family would tidy up, sit quietly, enact the lessons of the gospel and be ready for [...]

Fighting Diabetes; or How I Became a Vegetarian

Though it wasn’t quite a year since having Gabriel, I went to my family doctor for a blood panel and check up in January.  I had experienced a sudden cluster of low blood sugar episodes.  I have been having these since I was a teenager.  When I was pregnant with Dante and seeing a perinatologist [...]

Pilates

In my last post – on running of all things – I made mention of a post on Pilates.  And then I felt a bit daunted.  Over the past decade Pilates has gone from a relatively unknown form of exercise to an imprecisely used terms for core/ab workouts that encompass both what Joseph Pilates set [...]

Gratitude

Over time here at tan/green, I have been pretty open that I think there is more to granola living than good food and green cleaning (though those are pretty good staples).  There is a lot of how we live that is based in attitude, beliefs and actions – and those can be “granola-y” or “fast [...]