Bike Sales Surpass Car Sales!1Qtr 2009
Woohoo! I love it.Badass! I’m sure that you all saw my post from before? www.mylittlepail.com/on-being-a-bicyclist so you can imagine my happiness about hearing stats that our automotive market is starting to show clear signs of it’s un-usefulness in our culture. Frankly, if it doesn’t serve us as a whole, then I think we should... [Read more...]
Let’s talk plastic bags-and something for free
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch Have you ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?Yeah, I hadn’t either until last year. And loathe though I am, to bring more craptastic news from the Mother Earth front, you kids NEED to hear this news. So when you go to the grocery store, and you are hungry, tired, or just spaced... [Read more...]
Magik-Peter Murphy
Today looks like a perfectly ordinary day, but for me, it’s pure magic. Tonight I see the man who changed my life, over 17 years ago.Hopefully, this letter I sent to him a few years ago on his website will encapsulate the feelings he’s stirred in me, over time~~ “This is a moment in my life I have waited for…at 17, I received... [Read more...]
The Automatic Millionaire
I’ve been reading this amazing book called the Automatic Millionaire. It starts with two principles-Pay yourself First, and Make it Automatic. We talked before about the emotional impact that money can have on our satisfaction, our security, and our sense of empowerment. If you were raised like I was, it was with the sense that Uncle Sam takes... [Read more...]
Unusual Gifts
You guys are getting a bonus two posts this week, due to the technical difficulties yesterday with posting. We are hoping to have this resolved by next week. I enjoy posting on Thursdays, and think you like it too. So! I was waking up to another gorgeously cloudy *sarcasm* summer day in the Bay Area, when I thought of the unusual gifts I’ve... [Read more...]
