A Minimalist Tackles the Garden
“Simple living” often includes having a garden. Now, a garden can mean many things, from a substantial vegetable plot to a small sitting area with a few shrubs and a birdbath. No matter what kind or how large, gardens all too often go from simple to overwhelming, and what started as a pastoral dream [...]
Book Review: Wake Up by Jenny McCutcheon
Wake Up by Jenny McCutcheon (non-affiliate link) lays out the intricacies of advertising and marketing in a clear and unmistakable way. It will help any reader snap out of the consumerist dream state and understand just what is going on, backed up by some startling data. It begins by comparing consumerism to an out of [...]
April 2012 Minimalist Shopping Update
Okay, time to pour a cuppa and let’s talk shopping update. A few weeks ago I changed my blog’s tag line to “essays on life after the clutter is gone.” Minimalism and simplifying don’t end after the big cleanout and epiphany–there is also, I think, an ongoing realization that you’re flowing against the cultural stream, [...]
The Minimalist Woman is Turning Two
Adjusting the focus of a blog is a common, and also natural, occurrence. Some folks would say this blog doesn’t have much of a focus at all–it doesn’t lay out strategies for self-improvement, doesn’t get much into the how-to, doesn’t claim to be particularly helpful, and wanders around topics from clutter to relationships to knitting [...]
Minimalism and Sacred Spaces
Sacred spaces are not exclusively places of worship, but they are places where we are more keenly aware of an existence outside the mundane, the temporal, the profane. They can be found in nature and in manmade structures, and surely they can be found in other parts of the universe. Yoga and meditation can [...]
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