April 20, 2025 “You should really take Nana’s dining room table.  It was the same table from when she was a child, somebody needs to take it, and you’re still eating on top of that gawd-awful patio furniture.”   I used to think that when someone offered me something for free, no matter what their intentions…

April 13, 2025 My partner fell into The Minimalists’s movement around the time we started dating, some sort of a decade and a half ago.  At  that time I couldn’t tell a Podcast from a text message (seriously); and Bluetooth sounded to me like some sort of dental emergency.  I’ve always struggled to keep up…

April 6, 2025 Some of you may have noticed that there’s a lot of crap out there.  By “out there” I’m referring to everywhere we look in the mainstream-scape, and by “crap” I mean things that are stress-inducing, mass-produced, cheap, unhealthy, and seemingly unavoidable.  Still not getting the picture?   Okay, how about fast food as…

March 30, 2025 Life’s hurdles will never stop.  It’s like in those terrifying Halloween movies where Mike Myers just never goes away.  The dude has been stabbed, shot, dropped, fallen and beaten countless times, but always pops up for another sequel!  For some reason, just like in life, when this happens we react with a…

March 23, 2025 I’ve heard from many parents and have myself experienced times when parenting just feels like a series of threats and negotiations, particularly when it comes to “disciplinary” or behavioral concerns.   This of course is usually said in jest with varying levels of truth behind it and the reason we chuckle along is…