Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
Happy autumn equinox! The equinox actually falls two days from now on Saturday, but since I post on Thursdays and Sundays, here a few ideas now on how to celebrate the autumn equinox. This post also sparks further ideas. What is your favorite source of entertainment? Is it watching TV,
Tags: blogging·concerts·dancing·Peter Gabriel·potlucks·self-entertainment·singing·skateboarding·storytelling
What are your favorite and least favorite choices you’ve made in your life? How do you deal with disenchantment over a choice you’ve made? We constantly have to choose one thing over other things in our complex modern lives. We choose what town and neighborhood to live in, what colleges to attend (or not) and [...]
Tags: blogging·legacy·novels·PDX writers·writing
Long time without a post! When I had lunch with my friend Allison Hamilton yesterday (Allison is the creator of Oregon’s innovative solar highway), she said she’d been assuming my silence at Diamond-Cut Life was because I’d been busy house-hunting. She knows that Thor and I are seeking a somewhat larger house, while staying in [...]
Tags: blogging·Portland·sabbatical
Blythe traipsed in late yesterday afternoon to our writing group’s opening session here at Opal Creek, living up to her name, towing with her a forest treasure that startled me into a double take. I’d never seen a cauliflower mushroom before. It was huger than a Halloween pumpkin but formed of air and a fawn-colored, [...]
I’m excited that Blog Action Day has chosen climate change as the topic that thousands of bloggers worldwide will write about on October 15 (you can bet that I’m participating!) . . . I’ve added a new book, a real dazzler, to Books I Love . . . . . . I’m going to a [...]
Tags: blogging
My transition between old and new laptops plus an uptick at work led to my taking a 12 day break from posting. So, we can say I took a summer vacation, at least from blogging. How did I spend my virtual vacation? Three strands are loopily braided in my brain like rivers are prior to human intervention: [...]
Tags: beauty·blogging·development·Metolius·Natalie Angier·progress·recession·rivers·science·The Canon
Try this statement on for size: I have some personal responsibility to reduce the emissions that drive are driving global warming. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you agree with that statement, 1 being low, 10 being high? I imagine that the average person in the U.S. is between a 2 and a [...]
Tags: blogging·carbon footprint·climate change·immediate gratification
I’ve noticed for some time that advice on how to save money, lose weight, pursue self-employment and have a good relationship are the most popular topics among my readers (see the list of most popular posts to the lower right). Looks like I need to do a post entitled My Cheapest, Low-Calorie, Aphrodisiac Recipes, with [...]
Tags: blogging·culture·life·relationships·self-help·thrift·vision
by Alison Wiley Diamond-Cut Life embraces community and lots of different voices and perspectives. I am wide open to guest post on topics related to sustainability and/or living happily while treading lightly on the earth. Diamond-Cut Life has gotten 20,000 web-hits in its first year of publication. So you’ll get read! The only thing I [...]
Tags: blogging·global warming·green living·guest post·happiness·Oregon·writing
Future posts will be back to diamond-cut, wholesome fare on building relationships and community and saving money and carbon emissions via energy and gas conservation. But today the addict in me has to come forward and be known. The blogger addict, the one who craves hits. I jones for blog hits. I check my blog [...]
Tags: addiction·blogging·carpooling·endorphins·energy conservation·influence·Internet addiction
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