It’s summer time and the living’s easy. Or is it? For many people, summer looks just like the rest of the year. Same schedule. Same commute. Same cubicle. Even for entrepreneurs, summer can bring the same deadlines and to-do lists as any other season. Remember those impossibly long summers as a child, when making mud…
The spring equinox is March 20 in the northern hemisphere. The sun shines directly on the equator, and day and night are nearly equal. For centuries, people have marked the occasion with celebrations. How Did Ancient People Celebrate? Fires In Iran, people purified their homes and leapt over fires. Gathering at Monuments The Mayans gathered…
I reviewed Dee Williams’ The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir for Cities Are Now, the Winter 2015 issue of YES! Magazine. At 41, Dee Williams was a “normal, middle-class, middle-of-the-road woman with a mortgage and a job and friends.” She worked as a state hazardous waste inspector and owned a 1927 Portland, Ore., fixer-upper that…
I’m not stressing about the holidays this year. We’re planning to exchange some gifts, go for a hike, and eat a delicious dinner, but mostly we’re aiming for a relaxing day. Around now, I’m always thinking about where I want to put my attention in the new year, and this year I am zeroing in…
The past two weekends, my neighbors held a yard sale. Apparently my boys could smell commerce happening nearby, because within moments of awakening, they were at the window. “The neighbor has a tent on his lawn,” Ezra announced. Both boys spent most of the weekends outside asking questions and fondling nicknacks or glued to the…
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau “In the new good life, the point is not to have the most toys, but the most joys.” – John Robbins I was thumbing through a gourmet cookbook the other day, and the author recommended visiting farm stores to procure the most flavorful,…