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How Does Diet Affect the Planet? A recent study concluded that if every American could cut beef out of their diet (just beef) we could reduce our greenhouse gas emissions significantly enough to reach the emissions reductions goals that our...

If you scroll social media, house plants are as common in home decor as rugs and throw blankets. Many of us grew our collection of plant babies over the past year because we were spending so much more time...

I’m 36 years old and I am going to start getting an allowance. Like it is for a lot of couples, money is a hot topic in my marriage. We met living on loans in law school and in the...

Father's Day, Mother's Day ... we're not really big on them in our house as far as buying gifts goes. We prefer to spend that money on traveling, experiences, or things we can use together as a family, such as...

What I hope to share with you are not tips and they are not tricks on house cleaning. Sometimes someone new just needs to come along and remind you what you already know because then you might just do...

*This post is in partnership with Gaterol. All experiences and opinions are my own.  When my husband and I made the move to Flagstaff, we were excited to find the perfect house to raise our two small children in. We...

We recently sold our townhouse without having another place lined up. No, we weren't leaving town. Yes, we were worried about it. As the days ticked on, the stress mounted.It was what we had to do in this market....

So what happens when you move from a big city with a huge variety of people and many drastically differing opinions to a small town with a seemingly overwhelmingly singular point of view? You feel out of place, that’s...

Summer is the season of friends and family get-togethers. But if you're anything like me, that summer fun can add a lot of stress too. Before people set foot in my clean, but messy home - I have to do...

My little family is four months new to Flagstaff. We're the new kids in town. We just moved into our new house. We're navigating new work (and daycare) life. Everything is new except one thing - we're back in America. For...

You know what's awesome? Fall.  The colors...The smells...The bulky sweaters that cover my apparently permanent "fall fluff"...Oh, and all the fall-flavored lattes we get to enjoy (see also sweaters to cover subsequent "fall fluff" from too many fall-flavored lattes. haha!).  I...

People who move to Flagstaff are often shocked to find that most of our homes and apartments don't have air conditioning. I grew up in NC without AC so I'm used to toughing out the heat. Here are some...

This post was created in partnership with Frontier Co-Op, all opinions are our own. A few weeks ago I hauled both my little boys to our local natural grocery store on double coupon day. I was doomed to fail from...