The Joy of Nomadic Minimalism

Minimalism is quickly becoming our closest friend. We moved out of our house four days ago into my mother-in-law’s house. The move went as well as could be expected. We cleaned the house and packed up all the belongings (those we still had not sold, those we will take with us or those we will store while we are…

You Eat What You Pay For

We recently read an article about the economics of family farms in the U.S. One result of our journey towards Thailand is a more acute awareness of how each decision that we make impacts someone else achieving their own good life.  This plays out in many areas, but what has been on our minds most…

DIY: the Adventure Begins

In his book, A Failure of Nerve, Edwin Freidman describes American society as a “seatbelt society more oriented toward safety than adventure.” He goes on to discuss the emotional gridlock that existed in pre-renaissance Europe just before the major scientific and geographic discoveries that would go on to change Europe for the next couple hundred…