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Monday Whazzup – Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle Holiday Gift Wrap and Christmas Paper – You Can Make A Difference!
Every holiday season, my family receives, saves and reuses dozens of greeting cards which come in the mail. Cut off the more decorative part of the card and save it for next year. When the holiday season arrives, use the card “front” as a gift tag for presents and as postcard greetings to send in [...]
An Allergy Tragedy at the Coronado Home
Never say the word “never” – it will come back and bite you in the fanny so hard you will think you were attacked by a rabid dog. Not too long ago, only a few weeks ago in fact, I was written up in CNN. And of course, I was quoted at saying something really [...]
"Remembering Ruby" Gets Five Wags From Harry the Pug!
Children need support, love, and reassurance to build positive self-esteem and good mental health. As an experienced parent, I can say this is not always easy. This type of support starts at home, of course. Living a green lifestyle and “gardening nude” means more than being outdoors regularly, eating locally grown foods, and recycling. It [...]
Get Yo’ Green On Tuesdays – How to Save Money and Save the Earth During the Twelve Days of Christmas
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa. In an amazing salute to the holidays I have created my very own GREEN “Twelve Days of Christmas” Sing-A-Long. Wanna be green this season? More ecologically friendly? Well, start humming the tune – everyone sing with me now: On the first day of the holidays I’m [...]
Monday Whazzup – Fixed Income? No Problem – Earn Money By Being Green
Economical difficulties are hard to face, particularly through the holidays. Want to take a few steps towards better greening that literally earns you money? Here are my top three environmentally friendly tips which can put cold hard cash in your hands for the holidays: #1 – Once a month recycle all the aluminum and metal [...]
Downsizing and Emotional Health During A Recession – How "The Life Uncommon" Can Help!
It is time to make lemons out of lemonade and “garden nude.” By now you realize that “gardening nude” is not about gardening in the traditional sense. It is about tending to you, your family, and your community. It is a motivational push to live a greener lifestyle. It is spending more positive mental health [...]
Get Your Green On Tuesday – Shower Together and Conserve Water
Drought is not seasonal in most of the world and water is becoming increasingly scarce within the United States as well. What does this mean for the average person? It means that conserving water and not wasting should be something everyone considers every day. The solution? Shower together! A brilliant answer to a difficult problem, [...]
Monday Whazzup – Make Green Holiday Gifts and Bring Family Together
Scarf making fabric – $30. Hot cocoa – $1. Scissors – Free. Spending a snowy afternoon with your children making inexpensive, green-packaged, no-sew, thoughtful homemade gifts – Priceless!!! Why spend hours at a shopping center agonizing over the ridiculously expensive, overly packaged, tremendously materialistic holiday gifts, when you could be spending that precious time with [...]
Post Thanksgiving Harry The Pug!
For all the fans of Harry the Pug, here he is before the big feast – eating a special “turkey” treat for being so well behaved while we all celebrated Thanksgiving as a family. Good dog! Here he is AFTER the Turkeyfest snoring loudly through the football game and freaking everyone out by sleeping with [...]
Thanksgiving Inspiration – Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Does Not Mean The End of Nature’s Beauty For Children
Dear Casual Gardener, This year so many things have changed at my house. I am eleven years old and my parents went bankrupt. They have foreclosed on our home. We are moving into an apartment, we are all okay, but life is going to be different. We will no longer have a garden or a [...]
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