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The Only Day Planner That Has Ever Worked
By Nicole Williams / in Personal Progress / March 7, 2016It all started with a blank sheet of paper and a pen. First there were two sections: Objectives and Focused Tasks. After a few weeks, it just wasn't enough. I was failing to take care of mys...
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Tossed Salad Garden Bed
By Nicole Williams / in 2016 Garden Log / February 27, 2016Instead of tidy little squares or rows of plants this year, we thought we would sow them differently: Tossed salad style. It is a few weeks later than I would like to get my early spring seeds out, bu...
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I’m Overcommitted So Let’s Start a New Business
By Nicole Williams / in Personal Progress / February 20, 2016An interesting thing that can happen in the pathway to regaining ownership of your life is this: As things come off your plate, you find time to think and dream. And when you dream, you have new ideas...
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Handy Canning List for 2016
By Nicole Williams / in Food Preservation / February 15, 2016Fifty recipes in order of what ripens? Yes please! As a home canning Diva, lists like this are exactly what I want to read around March. Just skim the titles and decide what will end up on the pant...
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Camper Conversion: Making a Mobile Office from a Camper
By Nicole Williams / in Personal Progress, Camper Conversion / February 6, 2016Work-Home Separation is one of the benchmarks we have agreed to work on this year. Our first idea? Get our office out of the kitchen, out of the living room and out of the house. About a year ago, ...
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Pig Guts Are Alright
By Nicole Williams / in Country Living, Life N Culture / January 29, 2016[caption id="attachment_374" align="alignleft" width="960"] The first pig Nicole processed with Brett Corrieri.[/caption] The slow creep from city living (where Portlandia's depiction of a life of ...
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The Road to Life Balance
By Nicole Williams / in Personal Progress / January 25, 2016Last August, a corner was turned. With this post, I chose to live my life, instead of letting my work live it for me. It came at a time when Spark Freedom had a very full docket and some internal chal...
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Our Monetary System is Like Painted Lines
By Nicole Williams / in Economic Crisis, Thought of the Walk / October 22, 2015Have you ever thought about what stands between you and a head on collision when you drive? The thing that saves you from being maimed or killed by another driver? It's just a blob of paint. A dashed ...
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The Irony: Defending Freedom Took My Personal Freedom And It’s My Fault
By Nicole Williams / in Freedom / October 9, 2015Eleven years ago, I made the tough choice to dedicate my time to furthering freedom. It was hard to say no to well-paying, private-sector clients. But it was not hard to see that the last line of ...
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Middle Tennessee Late Fall Salad
By Nicole Williams / in Uncategorized / September 24, 2015Grocery store lettuce tastes rotten after months of fresh from the garden greens. Yet, with the latest round of heat, home-grown lettuce has not been seen around here in a long time. Luckily, with aut...
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