by wwm | May 10, 2020 | FromUM, Uncategorized
I wrote this originally as a guest post for a site called Minimalism Defined. The author of that blog has since taken their site down, and I don’t want to let this post disappear – so I’m re-posting it here. I think it’s particularly...
by wwm | Apr 1, 2020 | Old Drafts, Uncategorized
I just got an email with a subject line of “Today is the day!” For a split second, I was a little excited. It’s always nice when “today is the day” for something fun. When it’s the day for Christmas, or the day to start vacation, or...
by wwm | Mar 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
The other day I was thinking about some of the odd, almost-pedantic habits that I’ve acquired over the years. The thing that many of these habits have in common is that they front-load a bit of effort to save a lot of effort and hassle down the road. Some...
by wwm | Sep 16, 2016 | FromUM, Uncategorized
It’s an easy trap to fall into. Societally-speaking, “being organized” is the thing that’s valued, so that’s what we prioritize. As long as our stuff can fit into the containers we have, on the shelves we have, in the storage spaces we...
by wwm | Mar 9, 2015 | FromUM, Uncategorized
When I was a kid, our school made us a simple offer: read books, get free pizza. Our teachers would set reading goals for us, and when we met those goals we’d get a free personal-size pizza (donated by Pizza Hut). Of course there were some kids who were pretty...
