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I recently finished reading  The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer (highly recommend). The challenging insights in his...

One month post-shopping fast and I have been reflecting on what I learned, how I’ve changed and what I want to do differently in the...

Month #10 of my shopping fast! Fall is my favorite season.  The smells, the colors of the trees. The way it’s cool in the morning and...

I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing.  In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would...

I have passed the halfway point in my yearlong shopping fast. My family has completed theirs (they signed on to join me for the 1 st six...

On Waste and wasting: Today is trash day on my street.  I look at the heaps of waste we all push to the edge of our yards for the trucks...

Here is what’s been going on with me, my family and our shopping fast aka a year without shopping : I am still noticing the faded, worn...

An update on my year without shopping  . . . The power cord conundrum So just some context for this story:  My family has agreed to do...

My year without shopping has begun.   When I brought the idea of not buying anything for a year to my family my twelve-year-old...

Happy new year.  2017 was  . . . so many things.  Full of change, turmoil, natural disaster, political upheaval. One thing about the...