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I am covered in sweat as I write this, with a heart rate around 150 beats per minute. I’m used to writing this way. In fact, I’ve come to prefer it to the keyboard, the notepad, or any other stock imagery you might find when you Google the word “writing.” This technique helps me write more words in less time with virtually zero distraction or writer’s block. It’s how I drafted my debut novel over the course of a single summer. I call it cardio-drafting. Like most of the best inventions, cardio-drafting was born out of necessity. I would never...

Geoff Feder: Sculptor, Knifemaker Geoff Feder came to the utilitarian world of knifemaking through the esoteric vehicle of sculpture, and—though his career wended through blacksmithing and culinary school—there is a through-line that connects the two pursuits. Form. Color. The ideas of utility and directionality. “It’s, like, I’ve been inadvertently evolving since I was a dopey 18-year-old in college, right?” Feder says. “And trust me—it’s not fucking conscious.” When Feder was a fine art major studying sculpture at Kenyon College, he and his friends occasionally dipped off campus to fish. Feder became entranced by fishing lures. “I was buying Rapalas, and...

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can give you access to things many of us have no clue are even on the market. Some time ago, a now-deleted Reddit user asked everyone on the platform "What do the rich buy that the poor don't even know is available for purchase?" And apparently, the shopping list of the elite is exactly what we're interested in; the post has received a whopping 16.5K comments. However, while pet cloning and celebrity rentals sound appealing, let's not forget that over the last 50 years, the poverty rate in the U.S. has barely...

Vendor: Kikkerland Type: Hanging things Price: 10.00 Create the illusion that your plants are floating with this set of three plant hangers. Screw them to the wall and slide the rim of your flowerpot under the hook of the hanger. The other edge will catch against the lip of the pot, holding it securely in place. This simple, clever, space-saving design comes from Donald Corey, Professor of Industrial Design at Appalachian State University. Since they’re made of steel, they are strong, and they work with any standard terracotta pot with a border. A practical housewarming gift or a great way...

I’m back and excited to share this controversial space with you all! Waaaaaaay back in August of last year I shared that I was planning a space to put a hot tub from Goodland. We had the teeny tiny issue that Gremmy had escaped (out of this very window!) during this time and was gone for 6 long weeks. We got the Goodland hot tub at some point during that 6 weeks and it sat in the driveway making parking/getting into my garage almost impossible. You see, there was a crawl space under the window where we had successfully trapped...