For everyone (like me) who hates the mind-numbing, boring procedure of getting fit (and I believe we are the majority), here’s an idea to make it a little less boring and maybe even fun: don’t do exercises, do fun things instead. Take the following list, print it out and post

Who we are as individuals and how people perceive us is determined by our style: the image that we project. It’s defined by the clothes we wear, our demeanor, the way we interact with others and a hundred thousand other undefinable minutiae. Thank goodness for us there’s

If you really want to simplify your wardrobe, just adopt one completely-individual uniform as your own and wear it every day. Fictional characters do it all the time. Santa Claus does it, superheroes do it. Look at Indiana Jones: the hat, jacket, shirt and shoes…all part of

Image by I Am Ming This is no crusade against television. But naturally it’s television that comes first to my head when I think of vegetative states. We blame television for many of the ills of society, so this is the first alarm triggered in my head. But… the longer

There was a time, not very long ago, that when the sun went down people went to sleep. There was no television, no gaming console, no cell phone. There was no one to keep up with every moment of the day, no RSS feeds to monitor. There wasn’t even a good light to read a book

Building a Mountain of Zen Sadly, Feng Shui over the last decade or so has become all the rage in the West, and so, like the pop culture we are, we bastardized it. Turned it into a method of aesthetic design and a way to reduce clutter. For some reason, we see those Zen gardens and