The young Marcel Proust was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he is simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them. While I am not nearly the personage Marcel was, I too shall take [...]
Lesson For Today
Looking back over the comments on this site, it seems that (from the outside at least) I lead an interesting life. I suppose that looked at from a certain angle, that is probably true. I don’t want to toot my own horn and act like I’m the most interesting guy in the room (though at [...]
Live Forever Or Die Trying
Live Forever Or Die Trying
Normal Rooms Around The World
Normal Rooms Around The World
2006 In Review
There are no two ways about it, 2006 was an eventful year for me. There is not really any part of my life that didn’t see change during the year, and most of them underwent pretty radical reshaping. From the very beginning, 2006 was a pretty monumental year for Jenn and I.
January
I began the year [...]
The Importance Of Living
Now, this isn’t a product oriented blog, being about frugal, philosophical living and various other anti-consumerist topics, but I am making an exception for a very few books that I have found to be personally very rewarding, and that I constantly refer back to as I seek a deeper understanding of myself and the world [...]
College Towns
I’m sitting this morning at a table on the sidewalk in front of Adrianna’s having the first good cup of coffee in months that I didn’t roast myself, and pondering the possibilities for cheap and frugal living that seem to exist only in (southern?) college towns.
College towns, like Columbia, have a lot of things that [...]
Enrichment & Living Deliberately
Woo Hoo! I found the first other blogger that seems to be aiming pretty much at the same thing I am. Enrichment Daily, written by Adelle Tilton, a West Nebraskan who also writes for b5media, is the newest blog in the Syntagma Media blog network.
I am excited to find another blog that seems like mine, [...]
To Everyone Who Thinks I Hate Them…
It has come to my attention that there is a contingent of people in the world who are living under the false idea that I hate them. On the off chance that any of them read my little blog, I have prepared the following:
If I hated you, you would know it. I would have said [...]
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