I’m sure there are some people out there who can decide they want to lead lives of simplicity, flip and a switch and voila, they are instantly living simply. That hasn’t been the case for my family. Far from it in fact. We have found that taking baby steps toward simplicity is the best way [...]
For my family, living a life simplicity has meant many changes, shifts in perspective, and long-range goals. Like everything, namely life in general, simplicity is a journey. We have found that living a simple life doesn’t happen over night. But, we are always striving to get there.
Our number one long-range goal has been to spend [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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