Michael Koetsier Michael Koetsier

Remembering, Transition, and Growth

I asked myself how my father delt with adversity. For him, each step backward in life was tackled with inquisitive wondering. With superhuman calm, he would step back from the calamity, try to understand it logically, and then start the work of overcoming it…

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Dealing with Chronic Pain by Changing One’s Focus

Despite all the tech and automation in our lives, those QuickBooks reports don’t create themselves and neither do inventory lists. We all spend too much time in front of a screen and pain is a part of that lifestyle, but maybe there’s a remedy…

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Michael Koetsier Michael Koetsier

How All my Cares Fly Away in my Garden

Gardening and being out in nature is probably one of the most therapeutic and healthy habits to get into. I discovered this at a particularly difficult time in my life and I’ve stuck to it since…

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Michael Koetsier Michael Koetsier

Is “Slow Fashion” the New Trend?

At a time when small businesses need all the help they can get, the news media shouldn’t be limiting their potential by coining silly terms like Slow Fashion.

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