Staycations in lieu of travel vacations let us have fun while living within our means and not racking up any credit card debt. Plane trips, especially for whole families, quickly run into thousands of dollars, not to mention the way restaurant meals cost double to ten times what you’d spend cooking at home. Plus, any [...]
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Staycations: The No-Cost Phone Visit Vs. The Thousand-Dollar Trip
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, lifestyle, money, simplicity, transportation
Tags: carbon footprint·email·family·fun·green living·happiness·ktylerconk·long-distance relationships·phone conversations·relationships·staycations·thrift
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 longer [...]
Tags: bicycling·cars·email·exercise·green living·happiness·life·plants·possessions·storage·thrift·vegetables
Building The Web of Community
March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, health & well being, sustainability
As much as I like people and friendship and community, I rarely feel I have enough of any of these in my life. I want more. I blame the deficit partly on my own individualistic tendencies. (After all, I was a self-employed artist/writer from 1992-2004, and some individualism goes with the artistic territory).
But more fundamentally, [...]
Tags: artist·carpooling·Christmas cards·conferences·email·friendship·happiness·movies·people·trainings·vacations·writer
Free of Internet Service
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, sustainability
How free are you from HAVING to use the Internet? What’s the longest you’ve gone in the last year without using the Internet? What do you find yourself doing when you’ve got no access to email or the web?
Thor and I just returned from a tiny, beautiful town on the Oregon coast (possibly the only [...]
Tags: addiction·email·Internet·laptop·Oregon coast·retreat·Stephen Covey·technology
