Category Archives: 30 Personal Challenges
When Meditation Feels like Un-Meditation?
If you have read my twitter-tweets recently you may have also noticed that I have decided to restart my personal Big Sit Challenge. The “Big Sit” is a “challenge” started by Tricycle magazine to encourage those within the Buddhist community to sit in meditation for twenty minutes each day, for ninety days. When I had [...]
Just A Few More Tweaks – WordPress Theme Fun
Just a few more tweaks and I will feel accomplished. It might seems strange how many times I have re-written this Skillful Means Theme; about three or four to be closer to exact. I now feel pretty proficient in not only how to create a WordPress Theme but also in some of the back-magic techniques [...]
Dharma’s Stuffed Peppers with Anchovies – Take 2 – This time it’s paleo / low carb /no grain / whole foodish
I haven’t mentioned this yet in the blog but it I think it is note worthy: my other-half and I have done something radical. Well, radical for us. We had decided, after our great success staying smoke free, that we would try to make another healthy change, this one to our diets. Since changing our [...]
City Girl Deals with Deer – Building a Veggie Garden
Living in this part of Oregon is very nice, but one thing I have learned since moving here is that if I want to grow almost anything that isn’t planted a couple inches from the house it basically qualities as deer food. When we first buy property out in this part of the the toolie [...]
City Girl Seeds Start – My Container Garden
I’m so excited. This morning was the day that evidence of my started seeds poked through the peat to face the light. This means the organic “fruits” of my toil in starting my container garden has literally begun to take shape! For you old-hands at this gardening thing, seeing the first seedling sprouts may seem [...]
WordPress Tinkering – Mobile Themes Part I – Plugins
Today it was time for a little Skillulmeans wordpress server maintenance. You may be seeing some changes soon, and as usual your comments are always welcome. One thing I was looking at today was some mobile themes for wordpress. A mobile theme is one that will show only to those using a type of mobile [...]
Garden – A Newbie Considers Four Different Experiments
Between trying toe shoes and experimenting in the kitchen with things like vinegar and my new mini-still (see photo right), I have also been focusing on inching ever closer to building a garden, or better described some “small gardens”. Trying Something New: The Balance Between Risk and Success I am SUCH a newbie at gardening. [...]
A Toe Shoe Meditiation – Love Em…
This weekend I joked to my friends and family about how I was on a hunt for :toe shoes”. What my friends and family didn’t know about my new interest was that months ago my other-half had sent me a really good article on the how shoes have actually cause problems for those of us [...]
