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A Christmas Raft

We were inspired by Tricia at Little Eco Footprints to make our own version of her “calm and creative” natural advent calendar, so last week we gathered leaves from around our neighborhood, numbered...

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Celebrate the First Day of Winter

Photo by Moyan Brenn “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck It’s hard to find words after the tragic shooting in Connecticut last Friday....

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Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, from my family to yours, if you’re celebrating tomorrow. (If you’re not celebrating, I hope you have a lovely week as well.) In honor of the holiday, I’ll leave you with one of my...

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The Best of 2012

Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who read New Urban Habitat this year. Here are the 10 most popular posts of 2012: Resolving to Pay Attention The Riddle of Parenting The Empty Table Friendship:...

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12 Aha Moments in 2012

At the end of 2010, I shared 10 magic moments when someone said or wrote something that surprised or inspired me. Moments that made me say, “aha.” Now, as we say so long to 2012, I have 12 more for...

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Anthologizing

A Colorado columbine. Photo: Columbine Quillen For the past few months, in addition to my usual writing and blogging, I’ve been working on a big project. I’m editing an anthology of my late father Ed...

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Rev Up Your Creativity

Photo: John Mallon “I’m going to make something every day in 2013,” I announced in December. When I saw my friends’ responses, I thought perhaps this might be too ambitious an undertaking. However,...

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Finding Beauty

My photo archives are like a journal of my life. I can spot the periods of busyness, stress, or deadlines by the gaps there. I can also spot the winter months that way. Around November my...

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Striking a Balance With Technology

Photo: Anita Ritenour When my sister spent a year studying abroad in Iceland in 1993, we had little contact with her. We spent a lot of money to call each other occasionally on a land line that hummed...

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The Healing Power of Trees

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.  ~Hal Borland Cough, cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough. That’s how our household sounds this week. So it was with interest that I...

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The Wisdom of Winter

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. – Stanley Crawford Photo: Matt McGee Oh February. I always...

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Pruning Season: Practical Tips for Simplifying Your Life

It’s the time of year when we prune the rosebushes in our backyard down to a few stalks. For several weeks afterward, they look stark, straggly, and half-dead. Then an amazing thing happens. By May,...

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The Most Powerful Thing in the World

It’s March, and as I write this, it couldn’t be lovelier here. (March does have a way of surprising us, doesn’t it?) In these parts it came in with sunshine, daffodils, and birdsong. Last week I...

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How Transforming Your Meals Can Transform Your Life

Recently, I had an aha moment while I was eating a salad for lunch and skimming the newspaper. I don’t have much time for newspaper reading in this season of life. Of course, we all know it’s not that...

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Welcome Spring

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg The spring equinox is this Wednesday. What a perfect time to celebrate longer days, warmer...

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Celebrating Spring

We’re bringing in the season this week with lots of gardening, hiking, and spring cleaning. Here are a few scenes from our hike this weekend. We also plan to do some biking, now that we’ve inducted...

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Lessons From the Garden

“Can we plant the pumpkins this day?” “Let’s go see if the peas are growing!” “Mom, the chickens are in the garden again.” Oh yes, those are the sounds of spring around here. It’s our fifth year...

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Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed

As promised, here’s my review of The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray. Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed “The Seed Underground” is a love letter to...

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How To Learn Anything

A few months ago, I said “shoes” in a conversation with my husband, and one-year-old Ira appeared in the doorway carrying his Stride Rites. That’s when we realized he can understand everything we say....

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Happy Earth Day!

In honor of the holiday, I’m posting a column my dad wrote for the April 21, 2011 Denver Post. I have a cameo appearance, and I love my dad’s hilarious and true take on how we should celebrate the...

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