I write a lot about how technology is so often used as a crutch, especially in my own life. TV is such an easy way to pass time, and Twitter and Instagram or whatever your social media of choice is, is another mostly mindless way of spending time that could otherwise be put to good use. There are plenty of good things to be said about social media, but if we’re using them only as a way to make our lives go by faster, what purpose are they really serving? Continue reading “The Process of Becoming Un-tethered: How to Get Out of that Tech Rut”
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Why You Should Definitely Still Have a Night Light as an Adult
People make fun of me for wanting/having night lights.
“Only children are afraid of the dark,” they say.
UNTRUE.
See, there’s something about the dark that has always bothered me, and will always bother me, more than the monsters under my bed or the strange man hiding in my closet (we’re friends now, it’s all good), and that is the fact that in the dark, you cannot see.
Let me elaborate. Continue reading “Why You Should Definitely Still Have a Night Light as an Adult”
Why Owning a Shiht is the Ultimate Answer to the Simple Living Question
Writing this post, I was torn between categorizing it as Simple Living and Efficient Living, because there are just so many reasons why shih tzus improve your life. I could categorize it as both, because I’m the damn writer, right? Well no, because I’m going to keep my life simpler and allow myself only one category.
How’s that for some minimalism, you digital minimalist freaks? (I say that with much love in my heart.) Continue reading “Why Owning a Shiht is the Ultimate Answer to the Simple Living Question”
Minimalism & Frugality
Confession time: I’m a hoarder.
Like a bad one. But I have seen the error of my ways and I am working sincerely and passionately to correct that. This is one of the many reasons I decided to start a blog in the first place.
That, and I’m incredibly bored at home and thought that those of you in cyber space needed to hear my self-indulgent internal monologues.