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I'm Going to Get Organized One of These Days
My friend Jane could teach PhD classes in minimalism. You can actually walk into Jane’s closets — and they’re not walk-in closets. Once she asked if I had an extra postage stamp. I tried to give her two. "No" she said, "I need only one right now."I suggested she might have something else to mail in a couple of days. "Then I’ll go to the post office, I don’t want the clutter" more »
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Baggalini Urban Backpack: Developed by two retired Delta Airlines flight attendants, this versatile bag converts from a shoulder bag to backpack by unzipping and rehooking the shoulder strap. Interior has numerous compartments for items you normally carry in your wallet plus slots for your cell phone and pen and zippered spaces for coins and cosmetics. Two exterior pockets zip shut. Magnetic catch at top of bag conceals the zipper ends of main compartment. And there's still room for a small book and a bottle of water. more »
Worn and Wrong Parts; A Tale of Black Ice, 'Possessed' Water Closets and Bird Seed
I washed and dried a load of towels to have ready and waiting for the next chapter of Man vs. Toilet. I’m comfortable in the knowledge that if I had found myself living alone with a misbehaving toilet, I am reasonably certain my repairs would have included chewing gum and vegetable shortening covered with at least 15 yards of duct tape more »
The Question of Downsizing and The Three Deer
What if your ectoplasm ends up hovering over a squabble about whether to sell or store your maternal grandmother’s wedding present? What if no one has any interest in my prized first edition of Wallace Stegner’s collected short stories complete with a long inscription? So what, if no one wants that little nude? I forgive them if they donate all those watercolors I did of barrier island scenery after visits to Cumberland Island. more »
