We recently had a visit from Our Mutual Friend, Melon. 1976 I met Melon in 1976, when we were both studying at the University of Exeter during our junior years of college, she from Kenyon and me from Oberlin. “If you go to Oberlin,” she said to me, “you must know my […]
Living in Place
Tidying, Take Two: Papers.
Heaps of Papers Following the high of tidying all my clothes with Ruth, we moved on to the office – a room off the front hall that I’d come to loathe for its heaps of papers, the filing of which has been on my “To Do” list for going on a decade. Resistance To say […]
Unintended Consequence of Faster Technology
The unintended consequence of switching to faster technology is returning my studio into an internet-free zone. While unintended, this consequence is not bad. When I moved into my studio eight years ago, I had electricity but neither Internet nor phone. It was peaceful and quiet. I could concentrate. I called the studio my Chapel of […]
Plugged in to Tesla Powerwalls
After eleven months of waiting, my house is now plugged in to Tesla Powerwalls. These sleek, large batteries are now installed next to the main circuit breaker in my basement, where they store electricity. Win-Win The purpose of storing power is two-fold: 1) to provide power to my home when the power goes out; and […]
Tidying Up: Creating An Uncluttered Home
Almost four years ago, I dissed Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up as an entirely unreasonable approach to creating an uncluttered home. A House Bursting with Stuff At the time, I lamented the Myth of the Empty Nest: My kids had fledged, but my attic, basement and closets were bursting with […]
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