The revolution has begun… blogactionday.org is an international blog taking on poverty by asking bloggers to write about it on October 15. Changing global poverty begins with changing personal poverty. In the developed countries we may not be starving for food, yet we often are for the essence of life. When we shift our prospective [...]

How speed = stress In his latest book, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, Canadian journalist Carl Honore touts the benefits of slow living. Honore claims that the old paradigm “time is money” is being replaced by the “slow movement” model. Slow living produces more pleasure and better health. The slow city [...]

Our homes are our place of renewal. As men we will often retreat to our homes for our R and R after what can feel like a battle out in the world. After your body, what reflects who you are? It’s likely your home for it is the place escape to, the place you invest [...]

Escape is necessary. Modern lives demand a lot of us, sometimes 24/7. How do you escape your chaos? Do you accrue time and stress before you escape? Or do you go as needed? Travel in the last decade has changed. Since 9/11, air travel is now a security experience. Green travel is no longer just [...]

Escape is necessary. Modern lives demand a lot of us, sometimes 24/7. How do you escape your chaos? Do you accrue time and stress before you escape? Or do you go as needed? Travel in the last decade has changed. Since 9/11, air travel is now a security experience. Green travel is no longer just [...]

Most of us have a fanasty of an ideal home and an ideal hometown. Maybe it started with watching Leave it to Beaver. Or maybe it was visiting a friend and experiencing a different kind of town. We all strive to find that place where we feel at home. So much of this idealized home [...]

Welcome to OwenMarcus.com As humans, we’ve always had communities to help us, to protect us and to share the pleasure of life. With today’s virtual communities, we have the chance to enrich our real communities through expanding our virtual community to include those who share our passion for living a whole life. Feeding the Whole [...]

What do you live for? What do you think about when you go to bed? What do you dream about while you sleep? What do you lie awake thinking about? During the moments between other moments of action, what fantasies pop into your head? Are these experiences something you currently have in your life? Sometimes [...]