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I want to participate in Plastic Free July  and make it a wholly plastic free month sometime. They encourage disuse of single use plastics -...

When you live in a rich county in the middle of America, with your friends, church and little family in a nice little home ... it's quit...

Leisure is a mental and spiritual attitude ... not the result of spare time ... it is an attitude of the mind, a condition of the soul ... i...

One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;     another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. (Prov 13:7) __________________...

In writing about simplicity, I want to be mindful of how I approach these subjects. Often I find myself focusing on the negative, i.e. what ...

Valentine's day is this Friday. (Happy heart day!) I'm not a huge celebrator of this holiday of Love, but I do remember candy hearts...

We've had to say no several times lately. I promised my husband that I'd strip my schedule down to almost nothing in order to att...

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – on...

  I picked up a book at the library, Less is More (by Andrews/Urbanska), that is a compilation of essays on Simplicity. It's not a pro...

I've not set out to make my child a genius. I've known this from the time I was pregnant, I wasn't going to push her to be a...

Last June I did a series on Simplicity and talked a little bit about re-purposing, re-using and recycling. Someone asked what our recycling ...

Here's what was in this week's CSA bag: 3 stems broccoli, 2 lbs new potatoes, half dozen brown eggs,  6 small peaches, 1 med ...

"'Enough' is having our survival needs met (food, clothing, shelter), having possessions that bring joy and comfort and even ...

An extra little tidbit I wanted to add into my simplicity series was about time . What would your day (or week or month) look like if you ...

Food. A subject I love and hate. I love to eat and used to love to cook (bake, more specifically) but lately, I've just been so hard-p...

It's a harsh way of thinking to refer to all consuming as bad, so, I try not to go to that extreme. "Our days begin with consumi...

One of the first and most basic things I think of when I consider living simply is LESS STUFF. Getting out from underneath the load of STUF...

"One Wall Street banker put it bluntly: 'net worth equals self worth.' Under this definition, there is no such thing as e...

I have to admit, living without a cell phone has its advantages. And disadvantages. But all-in-all, it's been a pretty easy switch. ...

Over Easter, my parents helped me till and plant the rest of my garden. I've decided that this is the last year I'm growing in my ga...