Prior to The Spending Experiment, I would rarely think twice about how much I was spending as long as I deemed my purchases to be values-aligned. While I’d wince when presented the total at checkout, I’d rationalize that my values-aligned standards necessitated high price tags. And I was willing to pay these prices…

The idea for The Spending Experiment came from my therapist after hearing me complain for the umpteenth time that while I’d much rather stock organic red chard (have you ever seen anything more beautiful?!) at the food co-op than perform variance analyses at the nonprofit, I can’t because I have a ton of debt and virtually no savings…

What does it look like to disengage from capitalism? If you were a client, I’d help you figure that out, given your unique circumstances and privileges. But since this is a blog post and since there is no one-size-fits-all approach, I’ll answer it from my own perspective, as it applies to me. Which is to say, from the perspective of a fairly privileged, highly-educated, able-bodied white woman.

I don't need to tell you that we're undergoing a collective existential crisis. The world is (and has been) on fire, with POTUS & Co. adding a seemingly endless supply of accelerant. So what do we do? We make art.

I received a newsletter the other day from a friend who shared that her aim was to raise her vibration this year and avoid anything unpleasant that might lower it. My knee-jerk reaction was to note (to myself) that it takes a lot of privilege to be able to 'love and light' away societal ills that have very real repercussions on billions of people world-wide, not to mention millions of her fellow Americans.

I’ve held deeply anti-capitalist views since I became an activist back in 1998. This post offers some backstory.