About 6 months ago, I was thrilled to get a brand new Doxie One scanner. If you are not familiar with them, they are totally cute, super portable scanners that have revolutionized the way I think about paper and living my life without it. In fact, where we were in the...
Most of us that have essential oils around the home and use them for treating illness or for other therapeutic reasons know that you cannot use these oils forever. While essential oils don't go rancid, they do start to break down, oxidize and deteriorate with...
There are certain things that one goes through life, never to be without. For most people nowadays, that includes a smart phone and an ATM card. And in your home, there are many things you never seem to be without either. Like a microwave. I can't remember ever living...
This past weekend we had the opportunity to head up to London for a quick weekend trip. Tiffany and I tend to travel a lot less than we want to and have decided that now is the time to get a lot more traveling in since the kiddo is finally at an age where she is old...
When you open up multi-functional closet spaces, most of us want to see an idyllic closet that rays of sunshine beams out of and angels sing from when you open the door. You envision everything being in its place and complete order, so that you can find just what you...
This morning was the first long run of the 16 week Hal Higdon novice marathon training plan, which meant heading out for a 10km (6mile run) - the weather, as has been the case for the past few days was absolutely dreadful and I had thoughts of heading back into our...
After starting the 2013 race season with two half marathons (The Berlin Half Marathon and the Spreewald Half Marathon) it was time to go for something a bit shorter to get the whole family involved. While Tiffany enjoyed the Avon Women's Run on Saturday (with my mom,...
Ever since I had seen the funky green pickle race medal of the Spreewald Half and Full Marathon at the Berlin Half Marathon Race Expo a few weeks ago, I wanted to run the race to get my hands on this strange medal. When my schedule cleared out and I was still in good...
During the first weekend of May, on a sunny beautiful day, I decided to torture my mother-in-law and entered her into a 10km race. Her race entry was actually a Christmas present from Stefan and I, because she is a new runner and we thought what better gift for a...
2013 had started slowly in terms of running races, this all changed with the 33 Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon on April 7th. Neither Tiffany nor I had ever run a half marathon before and to be honest, both of us were happy that we had at least run the entire race...
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