Diamond-Cut Life

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Humbled By Haagen Dazs! The Plan . . .

June 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · food & drink, health & well being

My consumption habits are definitely still a work in progress. Not only has Carpool Guy pointed out to me that I’m crazy to do a 100 mile commute three days a week (something I had actually admitted up front) but I have a pathological relationship to Haagen Dazs ice cream. Here is the deal, and [...]

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The Best $400 We Spent This Month

April 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · community, money, transportation

It’s the last day of the month, a good day to look at household finances and where money was well spent and less well spent. You know me; I embrace thrift. I continued my theme of drinking less alcohol, including in social settings where ‘everyone’ is drinking, and it’s been wonderful. It saves money but [...]

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Twenty Ways to a Simpler, Happier Life, Part I

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · food & drink, health & well being, home & garden, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation

My pursuit of the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption) still leaves me plenty vulnerable to the excesses of U.S. culture. I love finding little inroads to simplicity and happiness like the ones I’ve listed here. I’ll publish the second half later this week. Gracefully end memberships that are no [...]

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Bike. Walk. Joy.

March 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments · energy, health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation

Did you know that 40% of trips made in the U.S. are two miles or less in length? That’s walking and bicycling distance. Yet cars are currently being used for most of those trips. So much physical, sensual pleasure being bypassed as we vegetate in our vehicles! And carbon emissions needlessly created. And overweight-ness perpetuated. [...]

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Best And Worst of Alice B. Toeclips

March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle, transportation

Do you want to visit or live in one of the best bicycling cities in the United States? I’ll bet you do. Then you’d be visiting or living in Portland, Oregon, where I am and where the nonprofit organization Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has its headquarters. I went to its annual awards and fundraising dinner, [...]

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