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I don’t often blog about the business of blogging, but a conversation with a friend of mine and the reading of a blog post covering the same topic prompted me to share my opinion on building a successful blog. More specifically, the first step that is universal to all successful blogs: the author chose to [...] Read more »
As we near 9-11′s 10th anniversary… After you read this post (or before, it’s up to you) read the first article I wrote about 9-11 here… dark day. The two most recent articles I’ve written: dark days behind us, brighter days ahead and once again, forced to reflect on that day Last year I didn’t [...] Read more »
Minimalism and frugality* have been hot topics since the financial crisis of 2008 dropped the US into a deep recession, a shallow recovery and now apparently the beginnings of a second recession. As I’ve read about the minimalist, frugal lifestyle and thought about my own childhood, I’ve wondered about whether the ability to achieve a [...] Read more »
This is a letter I wrote to my parents, via fax, in 1996. I thought it might be interesting to see what life was like mid-90s as an American expatriate in Russia…. First of all, let me apologize if the quality of this fax isn’t very good…the fax machine we’re using is pretty [...] Read more »
One of the biggest things you should do as an adult is to learn to distinguish between your needs and your wants. A mark of childhood is the inability to do just this. Most children don’t understand that there is even a difference between what they need and what they want, which is why grocery-store-fits [...] Read more »
I’ve noticed that I can make a few snap judgments about my family’s life based on our trash output. We are not a particularly “green” family, although I am passionate about environmental issues. Trash output is one are where I definitely talk the talk but walking…not so much. If you take a close look at [...] Read more »
