Category: Entertainment
One Simple Thing: Pick One Thing You Trash, and Try to Find a Place to Recycle It
Mr. GH and I have a lot of little fun rituals that help us keep life interesting (no, none involve chanting or sacrificing small animals). One of them sprung from a desire to recycle something we hated constantly throwing away. We have a big bin in the garage into which we toss waxed cardboard beverage […]
Friday Freedonist: What’s Free in YOUR Town?
We like to have fun, but our greenie life can be expensive sometimes, and that money has to come from somewhere (have you priced really good local cheese lately?) So we’re always on the lookout for free things to see, do, and learn. We live near Denver, which is hardly L.A. or New York or […]
Decorating with Meaning: A Different Way to Look at Your Space
From where I sit, I can look around the room and know that I am part of something good. On the wall to my left, there is a brilliantly-colored painting, a gift, made by a local artist who does an amazing job at capturing animals in their natural habitat. The subject(s) are a cluster of […]
Happy Birthday to Me: Are You Celebrating Your Birthday (Week) in Green Hedonist Style?
Let me start by explaining that, here in our house, the concept of isolating a single 24-hour period to celebrate the day of our emergence on this planet is laughable. Twenty fours hours to celebrate 52 years of this wild, inexplicable, crazy, maddening, magnificent aliveness? Yeah, see, I don’t think so. So some time ago […]
A Pictorial Friday Freedonist: The Extended Picnic, $2.75
Sometimes, giving yourself a thoughtful hedonistic treat can be as simple as taking advantage of a nice sunny day, a pretty space nearby, and a little creativity. My fantastic near-free Friday afternoon started with a simple craving for an outdoor picnic before the weather turns to ice next weekend. This is an easy Friday Freedonist […]
Friday Freedonist: Forest Bathing? It’s Free, It’s Luscious, It’s Healthy — And No Tub to Scrub
Today, I bathed with my clothes on. And it was amazing. Okay, I know, that’s weird even for ME. But for today’s Friday Freedonist, I was on a quest to groove on a little shinrin-yoku, the Japanese term for “taking in the forest atmosphere” or forest bathing. On this fantastic sunny autumn morning with tall […]
Enter the Friday Freedonist
Today I kick off my new feature, The Friday Freedonist, where I’ve decided to try to capture some of the free-or-nearly-free hedonistic things I like to do on Fridays to get a good reset going into the weekend. My rules for this activity are simple: It has to feel luscious, and it has to cost […]
Finding Your Formula: A + B + C = Yeah
Life is never predictable. Some days are fantastic, but others need a little bit of tweaking to make them feel great by the time they’re done. I’m coming to see these little adjustments as a series of fun games and formulas. The games I’ll address another time, but essentially they function like any game does: […]
Real Food Road Trip
The Perennial Plate crew has wrapped up its second season, a year-long adventure across America dubbed the “Real Food Road Trip.” In this online weekly documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating, they recorded 7 Terabytes of footage, travelled 23,000 miles across 42 states and made 50 short films about good food (one […]
It’s All About the Delight
There’s a breakfast place called Snooze that’s so good I can’t bring myself to put down my fork. Seriously, I want to put it down, but it seems to be attached to my right hand, so I find myself reaching for my coffee with my left hand instead. I just don’t want to miss anything. […]
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