Do Life Right

Before the How to, it is better to first ask: Can you teach a person to get interested in your ideas?
Simple Answer: You cannot teach a person how to become excited. It just isn’t possible. Inspiration and excitement are internal. How about motivation; can you teach that? Yes, you can motivate people, [...]

Changes happen for a variety of reasons. The best being when we see a problem, then work on a solution to solve the problem.
Yet, many people are scared of their problems and don’t do the work to change. It reminds me of the quote:

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving [...]

In honor of Earth Day, I want to encourage everyon to listen to NPR’s recent “Rising Demand for Meat Takes Toll on Environment” story.
The friend of mine who originally sent me this story pointed out that one of the experts in the story emphasizes the fact that decreasing your personal meat consumption by just 20% [...]

A degree, a simple piece of paper. It’s a declaration to the world that the bearer of said paper officially “Now Knows Enough”. Woo-Hoo! Party Time!
But, do you? Does that little piece of paper really mean you know enough? Enough for what? To be successful? To be happy? [...]

This post is about compromise.
In most aspects of my life, I’m a great compromiser. While I figure out plans for art and craft projects, I’m quite flexible on how they are actually implemented. I’m the same on cleaning, driving routes, and a wide variety of other things in my life - especially with [...]

Having attended Pie Party 2007, I’m thrilled to advertise the 6th annual Pie Party 2008. There will be over 150 pies and they are all vegan (raw, gluten-free, and sugar-free options available)! Amazing! Everyone in my family highly enjoyed the party last year. There were door prizes, raffles, t-shirts and pins [...]

Are you using fabric shopping bags yet? Consider the implications of plastic and paper, before you allow your purchases to be put into either again.
What you can do:

Be aware of the plastic bag problem.
Encourage the shops you frequent to have bag incentive programs; talk with the owner and/or manager - BE NICE. Write [...]

I’ve had this dilemma twice now: Wear out my hands, or buy leather gloves. Silly me! I didn’t think I had options as a vegan, but I’ve been able to find vegan cactus lifting (gardening) gloves and vegan bicycling gloves. With my recent blog,  “Leather - Can you live without it?  Yes!” I’ve had [...]

One of our uninterruptible power supplies woke me up early this morning, telling me that our power had gone out. It’s January and Winter here, but not cold like in other parts of the United States, so the only real inconvenience was the beeping of the UPS and the wondering if my daughter’s Magic [...]

Is 2008 your year to become organized and get rid of all your clutter? Do you have items in closets that you haven’t looked at in years, but aren’t sure what to do with? Consider recycling your items in unusual ways.
CLOTHING:

Fur coat? Donate it to PETA; they give them to homeless [...]