When I was looking into getting a zafu—a Japanese meditation cushion useful for sitting on the floor—I found several sites that talked about how to make your own, but one site in particular stuck out to me. Zafus don’t come cheap. The inexpensive ones start around $30, and the finer quality ones will run you […]
Read MoreI don’t make resolutions as such, but one of my areas of focus in this coming year is to keep on top of this site, among other things. The short version is, stuff happened, I got busy, and things like blogging slid. But I wanted to talk about something else today. 2016 was a hard […]
Read MoreWhen you make and eat the vast majority of your meals at home, it’s easy to not think about just how out of step from the rest of the world your diet has gotten. Substitutions are automatic—for example, whenever a recipe calls for “cream” I just read “coconut milk”—and a lot of foods just simply […]
Read MoreIt probably says something about the kind of household I live in that the notion of making my own shoes didn’t seem that strange or extreme to me. I mean, hell, we have a whole book on the subject, and the internet is full of tutorials and ideas and even patterns. But out there in […]
Read More…Because sometimes I really do try to Do All the Things. I’m perfectly happy to buy commercial or pre-made items for most things. But when I can’t find what I need, am not happy with the options available, or know I could make a better or cheaper version, then my next thought is “how can […]
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