The Excellent Adventure

By way of Unclutterer, another fascinating attempt by American media to buzz-ify what they don’t actually understand: Consumers cut back on small pleasures. The first thing the observant will notice is that the title says "pleasures"… but the URL says "luxuries". Two very different words, dontcha think? And then the article goes on to talk [...]

Tags: simplicity

Rather than spend this post whining about the fact that my long-awaited Birthday Sail plans have been put out of commission by another long stretch of rain and storms, I decided to go back and catch up on some of the material I’d collected over the warmer, sunnier, kinder days. For boat kids, life is [...]

Tags: art, family, living aboard, simplicity

One of my friends recently sent me this link to an SFGate piece, “Small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards“. (Thanks, FR!). Go ahead and read it through, then come on back. The house we lived in was ~1200 square feet, give or take. It’s considered to be small. Most [...]

Tags: clutter, downsizing, family, footprint, liberty, liveaboard, progress, simplicity