by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 6, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post’s (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn’t size the photos correctly for the emailed version, which mucked the whole thing up....
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 12, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a new header with some of my garden photography. As I wrote back in January, my 2014...
by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 23, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation
Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that’s been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It’s the one with the little girl narrating while magical graphics play in the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 5, 2014 | Life Lessons, Motivation
Spirit and I got out of Dodge last night. After thinking about it for years, I finally said, “This is the time.” It wasn’t an angry, “I’m leaving!” kind of decision. Or, “You people don’t appreciate...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 5, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Motivation
Are you a joiner type of person? Or do you prefer to work solo? Do you find safety in numbers, or do you feel alone in a crowd? I’ve always tended to be in the latter category. Although I’m considered by others to be “outgoing,” I’m...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 21, 2013 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Motivation
With the holidays coming up and to-do lists getting longer and longer, I thought this week would be a good time to reprint a post I wrote back in August for the personal development website Dumb Little Man – Tips for Life. I wrote this before I read Managing...
