Role Reboot

Why I Didn’t Buy Anything New For 200 Days

When you stop buying stuff, you might very well find that you have quite enough. The story of my 200-day Buy-Nothing-New challenge doesn’t start with an object or a possession. It starts with my dad, many months ago. My father had been living with me as he went through chemotherapy treatments. He was fighting a […]

Why I Became Obsessed With Shopping

I could accumulate objects even if the people and life I loved and wanted more than any object were stripped from me ruthlessly, brutally.  After my mother died, my father couldn’t bring himself to empty out her closets. My mother had been sick for a decade, declining slowly throughout my 20s. She had plenty of […]