What’s it all about…

It's about making stuff, making do with the stuff you already have, and making informed decisions about the stuff that affects the planet, your life, and your health. The topics covered fall into the following categories: Shelter, Food, Clothing, Water/Energy, Transportation and Arts/Entertainment. The posts are about what is interesting to me at the moment, but feel free to propose a topic or question for future posts in the "What's On Your Mind?" page.

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The Happiness Project: Six Tips for Coping with the Fact that You’ve Forgotten Someone’s Name.

While I would love to slap a nametag on everyone I come in contact with, somehow I don’t think it would endear me to anyone.  Gretchen Rubin, of the Happiness Project (blog and forthcoming book), has some wonderful strategies to handle “young-heimers” with grace and humor.  Check out her latest blog entry:

The Happiness Project: Six [...]

Great Outdoors Tips & Issues with Outdoors Expert Richard Davidian » Hiking Tips: Duct Tape for Blisters

I have always looked upon the Mainer’s faith in duct tape as a cure-all with a mixture of horror (they use it to mend books!), fascination (they use it to mend tears in car upholstery!), and amusement (they use it to mend their children’s potty mouths! – no, I’m kidding… they do no such thing… [...]

Getting organized…

In grad school, I was known among my colleagues and the faculty as being super-organized.  In fact, I was the butt of a lot of good humored ribbing after my advisor innocently mentioned at a student/faculty mixer in my first year that I had plotted out my entire grad school  career in an Excel workbook [...]