Get Rid Of 10 Things Per Day: Part 1

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May 15 22

 

I tend to keep things somewhat Spartan. . .

 

I don’t own a television or carry a cell phone.  I only keep one set of dishes in my kitchen.  And the bulk of my wardrobe consists of two pairs of jeans and three black t-shirts.  But then I read a post from Johnny B. Truant and thought. . . I can do better.

 

Johny is undergoing an experiment in quasi-minimalism where he is getting rid of 10 things each day for the month of May.  As I read about his experiment, I could hear echos of the infinite Fight Club loop that plays in my head about the things I own actually owning me.  I relished the thought of unloading my useless crap in daily heaps of garbage can visits and thrift store donations.  I began getting rid of 10 things per day immediately.

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How A Murder Case Challenged My Beliefs

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May 10 10

“I sentence you to death, by electrocution.”

 

I stood in the back of a packed courtroom.  And when I say packed, I mean packed.  There were television and newspaper reporters, courthouse employees who had stolen away from their desks and cubicles, the families of multiple victims, and most of my fellow interns from the county prosecutor’s office.

 

“I sentence you to death, by electrocution.”

 

I was in my third year of law school, taking classes at night while working as an intern for the prosecutor’s office full time, and I was given the job of writing the pretrial motions for one of the most sensationalized murder cases to take place in Columbus, Ohio.  Today I don’t remember how many counts of murder the defendant was up for, I just remember there were several.  And the judge read the sentence for each and every count.

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Osama bin Laden’s Death And My Reflections On War

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May 3 0

 

When the Towers fell, I had been out of the Army for less than a month.


I had just moved back to Columbus, Ohio.  I didn’t have a real job (I was doing painting and other labor for my landlord), I didn’t have a car, and I was basically enjoying my newfound freedom.  And the first thing I thought when I sat on a barstool to watch the CNN coverage about the planes that had crashed into the World Trade Center was. . .

 

Shit.  They’re going to call me back.

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8 Weird Things I Do To Make Life Easier

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Apr 18 8

I’m the first to admit that at times I can be a little weird.  And I know that I do things that some people consider odd.  I suppose you might call it minimalist, but I’m certainly not planning to steer this blog toward that subject matter.  Any way, allow me to give you a taste of the weirdness with these 8 things I do (or don’t do) to make life easier.

 

1.  I don’t carry a cell phone. That’s not completely accurate. . . I do keep a prepaid cell phone in my car in case of emergency and I still use my old iPhone as essentially an iPod Touch.  But for phone calls and texts, I use Google Voice.  So if I’m not in front of my computer, you will not get a hold of me.

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