Every year at this time, I find myself thinking about how to make the holiday season simpler and more meaningful….
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Wilderness
For years my friend Maude has been saying that we should go to her little cabin in Maine. Somehow, although…
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Connection
“Tug on anything at all,” naturalist John Muir once wrote, “and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the…
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Simplicity Parenting and Books to Give Away
I can’t recall how many times a reader has written to say, “I wish I’d found your books years ago,…
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Living the good life
I parked my car on the dirt road, slipped through the handmade twig gate, and followed a winding path through…
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Monks and memories
A month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I drove from our house in Massachusetts up to New Hampshire to…
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