The Minimalists

A pound of experiences weighs much more than a pound of stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I still buy things. But most of the things I purchase aren’t “things” in the traditional sense…

Take a look at your day-to-day life: through the hustle and bustle of your daily grind, what banal, tedious, mundane tasks eat up most of your time?

We are clearly in the throes of the holiday-shopping season…

Everyone complains about what they did and didn’t get for Christmas…

Some rules are not meant to be broken. Some are. Many rules are pliable: they can be bent and manipulated and shaped to produce a desired outcome. The beautiful and terrifying job for the writer is that he or she must…

The average American will spend $646.00 on Christmas presents this year…

Here’s an idea. What if you decided to gift only experiences this year? How much more memorable would your holidays be?

What if you could have only one Christmas present this year, what would it be? The answer for us is simple…

When’s the last time you hugged a stranger?

Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. Retailers are working hard to stimulate our insatiable desire to consume…

Corporations are inherently problematic because their primary objective is, by definition, to make money…

Throughout my twenties, I was an on-again, off-again alcoholic. An on-again, off-again womanizer. An on-again, off-again drug addict…

Maybe you’re dying to do something different with your life…

Another election is around the corner. What are our options?

There used to be this side of me that questioned every action I took, every word I spoke, every thought I had…