The Beauty of What’s in Front of You

Just this morning I read a short, compelling post by Mark Robertson at The Panamerican, called The Mythic Power of Leaving Home. In it, he considers the trap of sentimentality and I was compelled to comment that coming back to an idealized memory of home would be like recreating Eden. Once we leave that womblike [...]

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Courtney Carver’s Simple Ways to Be More With Less

Simple Ways to Be More With Less, by Courtney Carver, has just come out and it’s a lovely book, the kind that you keep at hand to reread in those moments when you look for soothing support and encouragement. Her thesis: “Your choices and actions will determine how you live, regardless of your current circumstances.” [...]

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Important Note: My RSS Feed Problem Fixed

For you wonderful readers who clicked on that big orange RSS Feed Button or subscribed via email in the right-hand column of this blog: I discovered it wasn’t working correctly because it was feeding from a long-defunct Blogspot blog. That problem has now been corrected, and you should be getting new posts as they are [...]

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The 3-Day Minimalist Book Sale!

Thank you everyone who purchased! UPDATE OF THE UPDATE!!! LESS THAN 12 HOURS TO GO!!! UPDATE!!! IT’S DAY THREE–LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SALE!!! Karol Gajda of the blog Ridiculously Extraordinary has just released a new book, The Luxury of Less, and he has put together a special 3-Day Minimalist [...]

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Finding Direction in the Dark

You hear the news and the floor falls out from under you: life will never be the same. Bewilderment. At a loss to match up what you know with what you’ve known all along– and yet it doesn’t happen. I’m not taking this in. They want to talk to you now, all the peripherals, who [...]

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