It’s Vacation Friday for me today, so I just wanted to stop by and give you some quick links that I love. I hope you all have plans to slow down and rest this weekend. It looks like the weather is going to be beautiful – I’m considering a beach trip on Sunday! Leo Babauta wrote … Continue reading
I always love the fourth of July because I love living a life that celebrates independence! Not so much from England, but independence from the pressure of conforming or living a life other than the one that is authentically mine! {Link Time} This is all over the internet already, but I absolutely loved this article: … Continue reading
It’s already the end of June! I can’t believe how fast time has whizzed by. It seems like no time since I quit my full-time desk miserable job, took a month off and began writing full-time! It’s been awesome! I’m also part-timing at a company I have always loved, and feel so happy to be a … Continue reading
I read a fantastic article a few days ago and just had to write about it, since it hit so close to home in terms of what I experienced in my last job. Tell me if this sounds like you: You haven’t gotten a raise (or may have even taken a paycut), but your list … Continue reading
It was 10pm on a Tuesday and my best friend and I were deep into her wedding preparation. We’d affixed labels to 144 beer bottles brewed by a friend, gotten the music set, gone over her vows and were planning on working out the table numbers when it hit: the desperate need for a break. … Continue reading
It’s a busy world over here. My best friend is getting married this Saturday, it was my man’s birthday last Friday (which included the actual day, the day of his party, and the day we celebrated with his family), and it was Father’s Day. Though my schedule has become so much freer in the last … Continue reading
You know. You do – you really do. You don’t need to go looking, or write it down in your journal, or spend an hour in meditation, or go for a run on the beach. You already know. You know where you’re feeling pinched, suffocated, resentful, overloaded, burned out, unappreciated, struggling, anxious. You know where … Continue reading
I love Gala Darling and have been a devoted follower of her blog for over two years now. She posted a fantastic piece today on the simplicity of living with less, and how having too many choices can make us miserable. She did an amazing job writing this piece and I highly recommend checking it … Continue reading
What most surprised me were the results I got from my study, which found that the more kids are exposed to consumer culture, they likelier they are to become depressed, suffer from anxiety, or experience low self-esteem. I would have thought it was the other way around — that consumer culture was the symptom, not … Continue reading
One of the missions of Small Life, Slow Life is to decrease the amount of time spent obligations and increase time spent on personal freedom. Obligations include all the things you have to do that you may not love to do. Some examples: Going to work, brushing your teeth, running your kids’ carpool wagon, doing … Continue reading
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