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 →
Have I ever mentioned that I once worked as a weight-reduction counselor? Or that the summer I was 18 the Army rejected me because I weighed, embarrassingly, 158-1/2? I cringe at the memory, not because the military and I could ever have been a match made in heaven, but because my overeating was out of [...]
Tags: baking·binges·diet·grace·holidays·monkey-mind·Overeaters Anonymous·overeating·real food·ritual·stewardship·television·weight loss
My post Rethinking Our Entitlement To Travel drew a thoughtful, in-depth comment from Tyler Karaszewski which draws my respect but not my agreement. In Tyler’s vision, 50 years from now we’ll still be driving as much as we please, but in cars emitting little or no carbon. The transformation to a low-carbon world will have [...]
Tags: creature comforts·electric cars·future·natural world·standard of living·stewardship·Tyler Karaszewski
If you’re stressing over your taxes being due today, I empathize. I have SO been there (though not any more. Here are my tips on breaking free of credit card and consumer debt.) Now I am a tax non-begrudger. I willingly pay taxes because I want to live in the civilized kind of society they make possible.
I see roads and highways as
Tags: Ayn Rand·bipartisan politics·Bush administration·consumer debt·credit cards·economics·greater good·Iraq war·libertarian·life·roads·stewardship·stop debt·tax burden·tax relief·taxes·treason
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