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When Doing It Yourself Is No Longer the Best Choice

When Doing It Yourself Is No Longer the Best Choice First published on Sixty and Me My husband has always

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Home Patty Grasher

Welcome. I’m Patty Grasher, a guidebook author, radio host, and local book event organizer in Southwest Washington. This site brings

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Recreating a 1908 Vancouver Cookbook, One Chapter at a Time

I seem to have zero energy but I have started a tiny new project. When I first came to Vancouver

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My Journey to Write a Cozy Mystery

This is probably going to be very boring to 99.9 percent of the world. Maybe I should make that 99.99999

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Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online for all Ages

Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online Playing free jigsaw puzzles online offers a wealth of benefits, making it a valuable pastime for

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Detours & Side Trips

So I am bit more spasmodic with my daily as usual but continuing on.   Since I always have a good

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Does it take a lot to make your soul happy?

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “When you do things from your soul,you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”― Rumi

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What brings you joy?

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “If we all did what brings us joy,rather then what we think will keep us safewe

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Fall in love with the process

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

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You may never know how inspirational you are for someone else

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “A person who inspires is a personwho changes the world in a million waysthey will never

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The value of friends is the true value in life

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your

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Can you do it for 15 minutes?

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: At some point I am going to make some real progress and stop running around in

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Deliberate Practice

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: For the moment I am pretty stuck with reading something from James Clear each morning. Saturday

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Focus by letting go

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: Another quote from James Clear. This one is from one of his articles on focusing. As

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I need a sleep day

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: James Clear (The science of sleep) – \”better sleep is critical for your mental and physical

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What\’s your super power?

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: From Nate Robinson \”Without a divided mindset, I began to really think about the possibilities of

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