At the risk of imagining myself one of those people who unboxes new toys for their millions of YouTube fans (about which I have zero delusions), or TikToks themselves showing off their latest thrift store haul, I do still want to tell you about how I came to possess not one but two zebra dresses.Continue reading “A Zebra For All Seasons”
Tag Archives: Minimalism
The Ideal Life Round-Up Contentment
Similar to the Ideal Life Theme of “Gravitas”, “Contentment” is quite idiosyncratic. If “Gravitas” is part of my Ideal Life, it is because I have always felt as though, for some reason, I never properly grew up into an adult. If “Contentment” is part of my Ideal Life, it is because I have never beenContinue reading “The Ideal Life Round-Up Contentment”
Challenge Quarterly Report: Q3 2021
AKA Challenge Update Week 39 Nine months have passed since I started my Buy No Clothes in 2021 Challenge. Just as I did at the end of March and the end of June of this year, I want to take a few minutes to look back at the last three months and give myself anContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q3 2021”
Challenge Quarterly Report: Q2 2021
AKA Challenge Update Week 26 Already six months have passed since I started my Buy No Clothes in 2021 Challenge. As I did at the end of March of this year, I want to take a few minutes to look back at the last three months and give myself an excuse to celebrate. Where noContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q2 2021”
What a summer engineer wears
Engineering my summer, project one details: The CPW Challenge The Venn Diagram As with many of my Ideal Life Themes, there is an overlap. For my first summer engineering project, I am going to tackle that ever elusive and unquantifiable issue of paranoia, and slap it down over my somewhat obsessive tracking of my closetContinue reading “What a summer engineer wears”
The Minimalist’s Wardrobe
What exactly is a minimalist? Based on what I see on the various Facebook pages I follow, this is a highly contentious question. I know what I think it would look like. I also know that it means different things to different people. There so many schools of thought on the issue: there are theContinue reading “The Minimalist’s Wardrobe”
The Shame of Plenty
If you are reading this, it’s because you either know me and love me, therefore cannot judge me for what I am going to say, or because you found my writing through a channel in which we have plenty of things in common. If the first one is true, “Hi mom!” If the second isContinue reading “The Shame of Plenty”
You should really stop shopping! Part Two: Why do you shop?
Please tell me I am not the only person who does this! I will be in the middle of something. Folding the laundry on the dining room table, for example, or putting away stray coats that ended up on the floor in the front hall, or working diligently on editing a novel, when suddenly, andContinue reading “You should really stop shopping! Part Two: Why do you shop?”
Challenge Quarterly Report: Q1 2021
AKA Challenge Update Week 13 Usually, once a week on Saturday, I do a weekly check-in regarding my my progress towards my goal of purchasing no clothes or accessories in 2021. You might think it should be easy: did you buy anything or didn’t you? But nothing is ever easy with me. As we sayContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q1 2021”
Take Nothing With You: Part Two
Minimalism as an exercise in spiritual discipline. Throughout my life I have experienced sparse moments of incredible clarity. Seeing as how I am, generally, in everyday life, a complete ditz, these moments of clarity are not homegrown. I recognize them because they come as fully formed in my brain and seem, even to me, whoContinue reading “Take Nothing With You: Part Two”
Sing With Your Feet 