• Minimalism

    Minimalism 2017 – Wrapup

    Minimalism, the year in review Well, I started 2017 with an aggressive goal: get rid of 2017 items in one year. Was I nuts? Did I fail? Was I a success? I will have to say the results were mixed. I…

  • Minimalism,  Thoughts

    Updates

    A few updates The month of November was busy for me. My wife and I took a 10-day cruise in the Caribbean. We stopped at Aruba, Bonaire, Granada, Martinique, St. Thomas, and Princess Cays. In Martinique, we stopped at a…

  • Minimalism

    Minimalism Status Update

    Minimalism Earlier this year I came up with a brilliant idea: get rid of 2017 items in 2017 as part of a minimalism challenge. The idea’s purpose simply to purge items in my life that were just taking up space and…

  • Minimalism

    Minimalism 2017 Challenge

    Minimalism 2017 So, in my FB and Twitter post a couple of days ago, I mentioned #minimalism and a challenge that came to me: Can I get rid of 2017 items that I have been holding onto in the year…

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    Paperless: Minimalism

    I think it was more than twenty years ago that the idea of going paperless first surfaced in my head.  The thought that we could get everything scanned into the computer and that I could get rid of the stacks…

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    Time for it to all go – Minimalism

    For a little while now, I have been thinking about becoming minimalists—not the super extreme reduce life down to 100 things minimalism—but the reduce things down to just what I am truly attached to kind of minimalism. I’ve never been…