I’m celebrating Buy Nothing Day today. In case you’ve never heard of it, Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed on the day after Thanksgiving, the largest shopping day of the year for Americans. From www.buynothingday.co.uk: “Saturday November 29h 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It’s a day where you challenge [...]
Among the multitude of systems and tactics I’ve put in place so that I can work my regular job from Mexico this winter is my phone arrangement. I just finished putting the finishing touches on it, testing and debugging it, and I’m more than pleased with how well it works. I’m going to use Skype [...]
I just finished reading Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico by Tony Cohan, a travelogue of a kind of a buffet odyssey throughout the country. His writing is elegant and thorough, and his stories of visits to a selection of Mexican locations are fun and informative. But the book which is truly affecting [...]
Only six days until I leave for Mexico. I’ve been preparing for this since the day I got back from Tulum last winter, about nine months ago. Kind of like a pregnancy which is now full-term. It’s required an unrelenting focus and a lot of planning, effort, and creativity, but it looks like it’s really [...]
I’ve read and re-read God Calling by A.J. Russell for over twenty years now. it’s what is known as a Christian daily devotional, a book composed of a collection of 365 short readings. For me, no spiritual book (other than maybe the books of the Bible) even compares to it. It speaks to me in [...]