Your Definitive Summer Slow Down Guide
Before we get started, I’d like to apologize to my Aussie friends. I know you are bundling up for winter. Hopefully, some of these tips will still apply and you still love me even though I have months of sunshine and warm temps coming. There is a magical time that kicks off on Memorial Day [...]
Simplify Your Life and Quiet Your Mind on The Spin Cycle
When life gets crazy, as it often does, it’s important to find routine and normalcy. My days usually include quiet time for writing and creating, but lately I’ve been pressed for time and am struggling with extra uncertainty and unpredictability. Sometimes that fuels my work and other times it’s an interruption. We all lose our groove [...]
Simplicity in Action: Aly’s Story
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. Aly If you had asked my mother or me a few years back what we thought about material possessions and the need to have more, we probably would have said that the best things in life aren’t free. We spent money on items we’d later [...]
Simplicity in Action: Jeane
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. Jeane My name is Jeane George Weigel and I am a working artist living in a tiny Spanish land grant village in the mountains of northern New Mexico. There are many other serious artists here and we earn our livings from our art. It hasn’t [...]
Simply Undeniable
Thank you mom.
Take a Break from Breaking News
If you wake up and check email while you watch the news, don’t be surprised if you feel frazzled and stressed by noon. I remember being glued to the TV, watching national or local stories unfold before my eyes. Sometimes that took hours and other times, days or longer. I usually felt broken after breaking [...]
Simplicity in Action: Zoe
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. Zoe I discovered voluntary simplicity at the time in my life when I had the most space–and the most stuff. My husband and I were living in a two-bedroom apartment and my mother had just died, so my stepfather kept bringing over boxes of her [...]
The Ever Present Possibility of Change
While we often think of change as difficult or uncomfortable, it is always happening. The earth is changing and our attitudes changes. We change our vote, our dreams, the people we spend time with, the food we eat and the desires that shape and form even our subtlest actions. The better you respond to change [...]
Get Simple and Be Creative
I’ve often wondered why we encourage play and creativity in children, but make it completely optional as adults. When you are creative, you are a better problem solver and have a built in outlet for stress. Tony Wagner, Author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World says, “imagining and creating [...]
Simplicity in Action: Ally
Editor’s Note: This is a post in the series, Simplicity in Action. Ally Our story of simplicity began in 2007 when our world as we knew it started to unravel. Poor financial planning (or lack thereof), the underlying mental illness of more/bigger is better, and the infamous real estate bubble all collided to create the perfect storm. [...]
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