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Friday Freedonist: Come on a Small Pleasures Safari

Friday Freedonist: Come on a Small Pleasures Safari

| May 1, 2015 | 2 Comments

I choose to make my life fun. That’s why I have so many games weaving through it. You can make a game out of almost anything, and flip something boring into something that makes you giggle. There’s the What Can I Make Out of X, Y, and Z for Dinner? game, the How Can I […]

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Friday Freedonist: What’s Free in YOUR Town?

Friday Freedonist: What’s Free in YOUR Town?

| April 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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Friday Freedonist: A Half-Hour of Pure Bliss

Friday Freedonist: A Half-Hour of Pure Bliss

| April 3, 2015 | 0 Comments

Do you know what yoga nidra is?  Before your brain starts conjuring up images of twisting your body into odd shapes and stretching to rest your head next to your buttocks, hold up  (Martha Beck once described her yoga instructor as looking  “… like the very serene victim of a terrible, terrible crime.”) Yoga nidra […]

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Friday Freedonist: Combining 5 Luxurious Home-Made Indulgences for a Personal Spa Day

Friday Freedonist: Combining 5 Luxurious Home-Made Indulgences for a Personal Spa Day

| January 18, 2014 | 1 Comment

It’s been a hard week, or to put a more positive spin on things, I should say an industrious week.  Work days that stretched into the evening hours, long workouts to try to start shedding some holiday weight, and too little time left over to just sit and take a deep breath. So I thought […]

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A Pictorial Friday Freedonist: The Extended Picnic, $2.75

A Pictorial Friday Freedonist: The Extended Picnic, $2.75

| November 30, 2013 | 1 Comment

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 […]

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Friday Freedonist:  Forest Bathing?  It’s Free, It’s Luscious, It’s Healthy — And No Tub to Scrub

Friday Freedonist: Forest Bathing? It’s Free, It’s Luscious, It’s Healthy — And No Tub to Scrub

| November 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

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 […]

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Enter the Friday Freedonist

Enter the Friday Freedonist

| October 25, 2013 | 1 Comment

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 […]

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