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A Wine Glass and Some Bubble Wrap
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I missed last week’s column. Life has been moving at a fairly ridiculous pace, and somewhere between work, family, construction…
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Roots & Renewal
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation You may have noticed that somewhere around a year ago, Rachel and I stopped telling you what we were doing…
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Confessions of a Geek
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I have a somewhat embarrassing number of imaginary houses. Some are in The Sims. Some are in House Flipper. Lately…
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That Was Not on My Schedule
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Tempered glass is fascinating stuff. It doesn’t break into dangerous-looking shards. It turns into thousands of tiny pieces that look…
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Pointy Scraper Thingy
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I was standing there, pointy scraper thingy in hand, battling a hunk of somehow-still-sticky clay on the inside of the…
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The Pond Ate My Boot
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The pond ate my boot. Well…part of it. Specifically, the pond ate the sole of my boot. Just… nommed it…
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After the Storm
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Welp, my plan to start Tai Chi on Saturday mornings got waylaid almost as soon as I came up with…
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Revolution and Tai Chi
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Happy July! As I’m writing this, we’re all getting ready to celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation. As you’re…
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Finding Family
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The Open House on June 20th went swimmingly, if I may say so myself! The weather was amazing, and folks…
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Footprints on the Ceiling
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The funny thing about cleaning a house is that the more you clean, the dirtier everything seems. You finally get…
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Further Along
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Do you know how absolutely, soul-quenchingly satisfying it is to see a system you designed and built work as intended?…
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I Don’t Know, But
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation I had a great idea for this week’s column. Then I forgot it. See, I was driving through Franklin earlier…