Mike emailed me the other day and asked a reasonable question, “What happens if everyone stops buying things, and tries to live with fewer things? Doesn't that destroy the economy even further?”...
Stuart Fleming added a great comment to my recent post about teaching children financial responsibility. He thinks about these things and has a few ideas himself. I want to quickly comment on the ide...
I love the book The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White. Definitely a five-star book. Like Charlotte’s Web, the book is a “children’s” book fit for adults. The best children’s literature is like that;...
This is not a jeremiad against petroleum. But don’t expect to chant “drill, baby, drill” after reading this either. Have a look at this infograph detailing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Did you se...
A while back I spent a weekend in Nashville with a bunch of Gonzos at a gathering of gathers called Hutchmoot. It was a marvelous time and I’m finally getting around to writing about it.Anyone involv...
It’s been a while coming. If all goes according to plan, though, I will receive a hard copy of my copyedited manuscript in the mail today. A two-hundred page book that just needs a few more edits bef...
Hey everyone. I want to let you know that in the next week or two I will be launching a new guynameddave blog and a new 100 Thing Challenge site. I’d like to ask for your help on a few things. Plea...
Over the years I have struggled with the difference between being a good judge and being judgmental. Often I have made bad judgments and found myself being judgmental. These days I am not immune. So ...
In many ways, I feel like I have failed my children when it comes to Christmas. Over at the 100 Thing Challenge Facebook, Dianne asked how we can celebrate Christmas without turning our children into...
Over at the 100 Thing Challenge Facebook page Tim asked for my opinion about the iPad. As some of you know, I’ve had an iPad for a couple of months now. So, ignoring the inevitable questions about wh...
The other day I did a Skype video interview for CBS news about the 100 Thing Challenge. I have no idea if they are going to run it. Haven’t heard back. But that’s not what I’m writing about. You see,...
After watching this TED talk, I am very interested to learn more about Tim Jackson's vision for "Prosperity without Growth."
I thought it might be nice to follow up my last post about not spending money in order to avoid economic disaster with a post on how we might better spend money. Here are a few tips on how we might s...
This post almost fits into my series, Portraits of Our Economic Meltdown. It is not so much about a product or company, though.Instead, I would like to encourage you to spend a bit of time listening ...
I am now at 97 things total. Today on the way home from work, I dropped by the Apple store and bought a microphone. According to my seven year old daughter, the microphone should not count as a thing...
The timing of Nicholas Carr's short post about The fickle Twitterer was apropos in my online life. No, I will not be abandoning Twitter, at least, not any time soon. Carr's thoughts on Twit...
Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II from Rury Gonzalez on Vimeo.I'm not a huge music fan. Some people know every song from every band and, I expect, every video ever recorded. What do I know? This...
With all my recent talk about how the 100 Thing Challenge is making me austere, I figured I should also point out how the needs and desires of consumerism remain present in my life. This could be bor...
Quick note. Ever since taking the 100 Thing Challenge, web browsing has gotten kind of boring. I rarely check retail sites. It does not take forever to read the few dozen blogs I keep up with. I brow...
Over the last five months, I have not written too much about the details of daily life and the 100 Thing Challenge. Gotta have something for the book!It's more than that, though. I have tried to...
This afternoon at PLNU, I had such a wonderful time listening to a lecture and Q&A with Andrea Lunsford, that I just had to make a quick blog note of it.It is likely that you are more familiar wi...
One of the cool things about working at a university is the opportunity to see students tackle the important issues of our world. A good liberal arts education helps a person put the joys and trials ...
In the next week or so, I think I'll be adjusting my 100 Thing Challenge list. There are several things I have that, like it or not, I just don't use and don't need and, even, don'...
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