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Unplugging

My vacation ends tonight. Tomorrow I’ll be back at work, sifting through the hundreds of emails that arrived when I was away and ignoring them.
I also didn’t keep up with twitter, or facebook, or my feed reader. For the first week, I was a real luddite: no computer, no phone, and it as [...]


The Power of Unplugging

First, I went away for a week and didn’t bring my computer. Then I decided to turn off my phone — no constantly checking voicemail, no sending text messages. No responsibility to check in, no pull to respond to other people (except my sweetie, and she was there in person with me), no hurrying.
Being [...]


Housecleaning

I have impulses toward a clean, modernist living space but what I have is crap overflowing the top of my dresser onto the floor. A stack of out of season clothes slowly compacts and slides off the side. This impulse, I must admit, is mostly in my head.
Sometimes I think I could throw away half [...]


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