Tag: downsizing

Controlled Burn

04.22.12, 2:47pm Comments (9)

I’m at a café right now that’s across the street from a vacant office building. The low-slung seventies-contemporary structure used to house our family dentist’s business. Read more »

Moving to Villa Villekulla

By Corbyn Hightower

03.18.12, 5:31pm Comments (4)

Downsizing is a painful disruption for a family. Recession diarist Corbyn Hightower on remaining resilient through the process. Read more »

It's A Good Weird

By Corbyn Hightower

02.26.12, 10:14pm Comments (0)

As Corbyn Hightower's family has re-scaled their lives to scaled down earnings, they've met more artists, eccentrics, and cheerful outcasts. It's a good weird. Read more »

Mashed Sandwiches and Empty Water Bottles

By Corbyn Hightower

02.13.12, 6:01pm Comments (4)

How the "automatic pariah-status" of living car-free liberated Corbyn Hightower's family. Read more »

Craigslist and Other Intimacies

By Corbyn Hightower

01.06.12, 4:07pm Comments (3)

This is what people love to call a first world issue. Read more »

I'm Too Lazy to Write This Piece

By Corbyn Hightower

12.26.11, 9:23pm Comments (5)

"Now Mom, I'm going to have you sit on the floor in front of the hearth. Sisters, can you sit on either side of your mom? Put your hand on her shoulder, there . . . that's it. Read more »

Incandescent

By Corbyn Hightower

12.14.11, 11:34pm Comments (0)

As a child, I was known for being a daydreamer, a ceiling-gazer. I wasn't looking at the ceilings though, it just appeared so. I was looking at the light fixtures. Read more »

To Exurbia and Back in One Short Year

By Corbyn Hightower

11.28.11, 10:07pm Comments (2)

Back when I had a real job, we lived in a planned subdivision that was specifically designed to foster the feeling of community and car-free convenience. Read more »

Some Small Spring

By Corbyn Hightower

11.20.11, 6:02pm Comments (3)

Learning to embrace the gifts that winter brings. Read more »

Occupying My Living Room

By Corbyn Hightower

10.30.11, 3:23pm Comments (5)

Corbyn Hightower's family can't Occupy — they have school-age children, babysit, have no car, and live twenty miles from the closest site of activism. But they're feeling the effects of the movement as it ripples through their networks and informs almost every conversation. Read more »