Category: slow living

Living Life in the Slow Lane

A simple statement I’ve been reminded of recently is that we can’t do everything and expect to do everything well. Our society prioritizes efficiency and productivity. Many work long days, fill every minute of their schedules, rush from one thing to the next, and create systems that allow for tasks to get finished faster. I’ve…


Living on Spanish Time

The way I viewed time changed in 2007 when I quit my desk job, threw some essentials in a large suitcase, and moved 5,000 miles east to a town I’d never heard of in southern Spain. I arrived in Jaén with only one real responsibility: teach English. But I brought my own to-do list, of…