Cleaning is Cathartic.

Throw stuff away. Give stuff away. Un-finish things. The process of reduction is fascinating. In food science, reduction is about simmering basic ingredients together and slowly eliminating water – until you’re left with a rich, thick, wonderful sauce full...

30 days Car-FREE: An Experiment

Can I go 30 days without a car? As part of “Lessons from Less,” and in a follow-up to my question about whether or not I should keep my car, I set out at the end of December to go for 30 days without my car to see if I can wrangle up the nerve to sell it....

Finish Something

Finish something. We spend so much energy starting, thinking, dreaming and creating. You’ve gone through and un-finished projects that don’t matter. You’ve cleared your closets and space of things, slowly, and you’ve made a little more time for...

Un-finish 10 things

Don’t finish everything. There are things that aren’t worth doing. Delete them. That half-finished magazine? Recycle it. The book you’re not that into? Don’t read the rest of it. The clothes you keep meaning to fix? Don’t fix them –...