So much to buy, so much to do.

Okay, it really wasn’t that big of a surprise when my wife told me she was pregnant eight months, 3 weeks and two hrs ago with our first child (but who’s counting). What was a surprise to me, however, was all that was needed to be done BEFORE [...]

“So, what’s for dinner tonight?”

THAT IS IT!  I cannot hear that phrase again, that last-minute, spoken in a fit of hunger, desperate & cranky, “What’s for dinner tonight?”  If you are like me, living in a household with two working adults, sometimes it’s hard to coordinate who will order the take-out, let alone go grocery [...]

Our Chief Architect, Jason Horman, just had a brand spankin’ new Strida folding bike delivered to the office. It’s pretty sweet!
But the question is…
Will a commuter bicycle simplify Jason’s life? We’ll see.
Jason will give it a try for the next few weeks & report back. If you’ve been on the fence about taking [...]

Is scanning the only option?

I have just returned from the BlogHer ’08 Conference in San Francisco (see my notes on the conference) & am now faced with organizing the giant handful of business cards I collected. My normal response to such a task would be to put the cards in a Ziploc bag & [...]

Paper or Plastic?

There’s been lot of scuttlebutt lately regarding plastic grocery bags:
First San Francisco outlawed them,
then Whole Foods stopped offering nationwide,
and amazingly the entire country of China outlawed free plastic bags!
My response: Paper NOR Plastic. I have been carrying reusable grocery bags for 2+ years, but have recently noticed them popping up everywhere [...]

Driving sucks, ride your bike

“Going green” is often equated with a simpler lifestyle. And, when I landed a new job that was close enough (& casual enough) for me to ride my bike to work, I was psyched! Well, it has turned out to be quite a process, turning this city girl into [...]

That’s the question we’re posing at thesimpleme.com
Each week we will look at a couple ideas that are meant to make our lives simpler and see if they actually do. These may be personal tips we’ve learned along the way or trying out new insights found around the web.
This blog is run by the employees of [...]