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You’ve travelled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage.Here! I’ve picked you a bunch of wild flowers.Their meaning is the same but they’re much easier to carry. Hsu Yun (1839 – 1959) [...]

I am an untidy control freak. I wouldn’t have believed that they exist unless I was one, but I can assure you that they do exist. This afternoon I was vacuuming up the dried beans and peas that had been spread all over the dining room floor by my artistically minded three-year-old daughter. She decided [...]

Do you ever lie awake at night, unable to sleep because of all the thoughts rushing around your head? It used to be a constant problem for me. And as the thoughts went round and round in my head, I often found myself becoming anxious about not being able to sleep or about something that [...]

When a 19-year-old boy racer had a serious accident right outside my home on Saturday afternoon, I went on a little journey of emotions. At first the adrenaline kicked in as I called the police and ambulance, but once the ambulance had arrived (the boy wasn’t seriously hurt thankfully) and my thoughts came back into [...]

I wrote this post for EcoStreet, but wanted to share it here too. The children’s birthday party has been grasped by many businesses as just another marketing tool, and they are churned out one after the other, with lots of waste and at a pretty penny too. You know the one’s I’m talking about, MacDonalds, [...]

Contemplating our responsibilities as homemakers can be daunting. Keeping the house clean, doing mountains of laundry, washing the dishes, cleaning the toilet. And when they’re done, we start over at the beginning again. It stretches out far into the future, a never-ending procession of chores. The thought of it can make us not want to [...]

I just came across this article at The New Homemaker website, and wanted to share it. It’s been a busy week and routine has given way to priorities for my family. We all have times like these.

“Have you ever wanted to unplug from the rat race and free yourself?” asks Nick Rosen in his new book How to live off-grid. In it he provides not only the inspiration to get off the beaten track and find your own space, he also provides countless resources to help you do just what he [...]

We’ve been enjoying local polytunnel-grown strawberries while we are waiting for ours to ripen. It’s a good idea to make the most of what’s in season, so apart from eating lots of them just as they are, or with yoghurt or ice-cream, I’ve also devised this Strawberry Cheesecake recipe. Unfortunately I didn’t think of photographing [...]

Welcome to the very first Carnival of Housewives, and a big thank you to everyone who submitted a blog post (even though it may have escaped me at first). This month’s Carnival of Housewives is being held here at The Zen Housewife, and I’m hoping that others will take up the challenge and host the [...]

To anyone who was surprised by my last post because they had indeed submitted a post for the Carnival of Housewives, my sincere apologies. I had been expecting notifications of submissions by email from the Blog Carnival home page, and when I didn’t receive any, I wrongly assumed that there weren’t any submissions. There have [...]

Looks like my Housewife Carnival idea took a bit of a nose dive. Not a single submission. I’m going to give it another month to see if there is any interest. It’s meant to be a bit of fun, for those of us who are brave enough to be housewives in this crazy world. House-husbands [...]