Hurry! Run and hide! Not that direction. Your sewing room. That’s the perfect place. Hide out for the weekend and on Monday we’ll revisit Sewing Stash Subtraction. There have been some interesting developments.
This is the second chapter of Leo Babauta’s Thriving on Less. It is his companion ebook to The Power of Less. Chapter 2 – Focus on the Essentials “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann The first step in simplifying, and living with less, is to […]
A breaking news alert from the New York Times just came in. According to the Labor Dept., the jobless rate jumped to 7.2% as more that 524,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in December. More than 11 million Americans are now unemployed, the most in nearly 25 years. That now puts the unemployment rate up 2.2 percentage points since April. […]
If you don’t procrastinate, you can have personal finance expert Suze Orman’s latest book free. Suze was on the Oprah Winfrey show today and revealed her 2009 action plan. That is, in fact, the title of her latest book. You can go here right now to download her book. But you need to do this before […]
Is this a common affliction? Consumer Man was back on the island for a couple days and his first night back kept me on edge. Literally. I’m sure you’ve all seen drivers who like to take their half out of the middle of the road. Consumer Man was doing that with his half of the […]
It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book’s FIRST chapter! You never know when […]
It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book’s FIRST chapter! You never know when […]
It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book’s FIRST chapter! You never know when […]
I have a holiday cactus. I thought it was a Thanksgiving cactus, but I couldn’t remember if the one with the pointy leaves was a Thanksgiving or Christmas cactus. One has the rounded tips and the other, pointy. Mine has the pointy. Anyway, they look pointy to me. This first picture is a Thanksgiving cactus. […]
I had a very nice visit on the mainland last week, but it’s always good to be back on the island. It was a busy week, as I’m sure it was for most of you. My heart always remains on the island when I’m away, but now I’m back physically. As always, when I return home […]