When my children were little kids, we had two dogs. One was a cross-breed — a combination of bearded collie, border collie, labrador and s...

 Comments glitch has fixed itself! Yay!

  I still can't reply to comments on this blog. Sigh.  This has happened to me before, actually. In the sidebar here is a link to Beth...

  The last post I put up here was blocked by the Google robots because they had some kind of unspecified objection to it. I have tried numer...

Minimalism/simplicity — as a concept — can be very slippery, subject to much variability, even vague. Online minimalists have different ways...

This may be a ladies-only post. But since we are talking primarily about old ladies, I doubt there is anything to titillate or disturb. I le...

  How we spend our time depends on our stage of life. I like that phrase — "spend our time" — because it brings to the fore that t...

Josh  Becker is probably my favourite minimalist on YouTube, and I also especially like Madisun Gray and Nicolas Garofola.   Those are the o...

My father kept all his clothes in plastic bags. He travelled the world, and was never at home for many weeks before he had to go again. Even...

When she'd read this blog post from the beginning of this month, and got her misbehaving electronics under control, Vicki was back in ...