September 2021

Any talk about simplicity or minimalism can’t get away from the time dimension, because that’s the dimension that really counts. More than having open space in your living room, it’s having open time in your calendar, in your life, time to do the things that you really want to do, rather than having time be […]

We’re constantly under attack, you could say. Our minds are being fished. We’re like fish, that the bait’s coming out at us, the hooks are coming out at us. Everybody, it seems, is trying to affect how we think. We have advertising telling us what we should want, what we really want if we just

Are you mainstream? Or are you alternative? These categories have been with me sort of automatically as a way of thinking since growing up in the 90s, when it was alternative rock against mainstream pop, and it became this statement of identity to be alternative. Another word was indie. Are you mainstream or indie? So

There’s nothing like that feeling on holidays, that feeling that there’s something special about the day. So I often like to think, why can’t we have that more often? There’s maybe, here in Canada, around 10 official holidays. You can add all kinds of traditional holidays, an extra 10 maybe, and throw in some other