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Quit Like a Woman

  • Posted on April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

Die with Zero

  • Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

The Good Sister

  • Posted on April 16, 2021

That Summer

  • Posted on April 15, 2021April 16, 2021
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  • Posted on April 27, 2021April 26, 2021

The Intimacy Experiment

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  • Posted on April 21, 2021April 30, 2021

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

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  • Posted on April 19, 2021April 16, 2021

The Path to Sunshine Cove

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on April 1, 2021

Hello, Spring

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on March 10, 2021April 16, 2021

Are We There Yet?

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on March 1, 2021April 26, 2021

Remember

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 26, 2021

Float Plan

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 23, 2021April 24, 2021

The Sum of Us

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 9, 2021March 10, 2021

Just Like You

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

Music Monday: Imogen Heap

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  • Posted on February 6, 2021April 26, 2021

The Silent Patient

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 5, 2021April 24, 2021

Life Is in the Transitions

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 4, 2021March 1, 2021

Meet You in the Middle

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on February 1, 2021

New Year, New Beginnings

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  • by Lorilin
  • Posted on January 28, 2021April 24, 2021

The Four Winds

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I’m Lorilin, a stay-at-home mom in Chicago who reads books to stay sane. Even though I spend most of my day looking after my lovely and wild children, I always make time to read—mostly fiction, wellness, and memoir, with a few cookbooks and gardening books thrown in the mix.

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Oh, this was a sad one. WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER follows a group of people in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastates the city. We hear from a mother who loses her entire family, a wealthy expat and his daughter, a drug trafficker, and an old market woman who bears witness to ALL THE TRAGEDY. This is one of those books you read to learn about something you knew nothing about but should have (at least for me). The writing is beautiful, and—this is cliche to say, but I’ll say it anyway—I was transported while reading it. I felt like I was right there beside these characters. I knew them and cared for them. It really helped me understand how devastating the destruction in Haiti really was after the earthquake.
This is the first year I’m listening to the advice of @roy_diblik_ (author of THE KNOW MAINTENANCE GARDEN) and turning my clean yard waste directly back into nourishing mulch. All you have to do is make piles of fallen leaves and then mow over them with your regular lawnmower. Then you can redistribute the leaf pieces wherever you want. I kept most of mine on the lawn, but I also put a lot in a back corner of my property that is honest-to-God pure clay soil 😵‍💫 and needs A LOT of organic matter. We’ll see if it makes a difference come spring, but I’m pretty happy with myself right now, can’t lie. What do you do to get your yard winter ready?
REPEAT AFTER ME…
AFTER is a book I read after my FIL passed away last year. It’s a fascinating exploration of what happens to our consciousness after we die (spoiler alert: it probably doesn’t just cease to exist). Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Bruce Greyson has collected and studied decades-worth of data from people who were pronounced clinically dead but then came back. This isn’t a woo-woo New Age-type book. It is well researched and beautifully articulated by someone with many, many years of experience in this pioneering field.

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