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Resolution: Slow Christmas meet Slow Life
Polar bears know how to live First day back at work? Don’t want to return to your regularly scheduled life after slowing down for Christmas? Fear not! I have a message for us from Carl Honoré, an...
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How to make doughnuts
Since it’s early in the season, this is as much a fall recipe as a Christmas one. There’s nothing better than doughnuts and cider in the fall, preferably after raking leaves or visiting a U-Pick farm....
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My love-hate relationship with Christmas cards
I love the idea of Christmas cards. But reality always gets in the way. Finding the perfect card or taking a family portrait, asking for everyone’s street address (and giving away the surprise), buying...
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Slow Christmas on your television. No really.
My sisters and I were raised on TV, and Christmas was no exception. Our Grammy used to save the insert in the newspaper with the entire schedule of Christmas specials. We would circle the ones we...
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On Advent Calendars
When we were little, we used to buy those Swiss or German cardboard advent calendars that you could poke the little candies out of, one by one. There were three of us, so every third day was our day to...
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But what if my family drives me crazy?
When I tell friends about the blog, and how I’m trying to spend less money and spend more time with friends and family at Christmas, their reaction is often “sheesh, more time with my family?” We...
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The Ginkgo tree
Hello again, dear readers! I’m glad to see you again, and not only because you’re the loveliest readers on The Internet, but also because it means Christmas is near! You may have noticed I’m starting a...
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Falling Back into Slow Christmas
Hello again! I’ve missed you, dear Slow Christmasers. It’s been a season of changes for me — new job, new home. But one thing stays constant: my abiding love for Christmas. I’m excited to get back in...
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Christmas catalogs get a Slow Christmas makeover
Piles of Christmas catalogs have been showing up in our mailbox for over a month now. So many dead trees, so much Kristmas Krap to buy. But part of me also loves them. The beautiful Christmas trees,...
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Slow Parenting
The Snowman (1982) Maybe it’s because my generation’s parenting culture can be a bit obsessive, but there have been a spate of recent books with the message for parents to just chill out. They tend to...
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