Frugal Friday: Make Do and Mend
In a world of fast fashion, mending is quite out of date (unless you’re a hipster, and I am one of the trilobites of hipsterism), so it is all the more appropri...
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Zen and the Art of Living History
or, Embrace the Everyday Chop Wood, Carry Water is taken from a Zen saying: Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry ...
Peddling a Myth
Every now and then, I reach the dammit! point of my research, where I am forced to realize that Everything I Assumed Was Wrong. I try to make those moments a ca...
On the Street Corner
Not everyone who’s standing on the corner is up to no good. Some have legitimate business. In the London of the past, just as in, say, the Manhattan of to...
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