In case you haven’t heard, holiday shopping season has arrived.  Since you are reading this, I’ll assume you’re not the sort that rushes to big box stores at 4am the day after Thanksgiving.  If you’re like me, you want no part of the mind-numbing mall experience and would rather avoid our nation’s gross display of [...]

I know you know the mall is for losers. So don’t do it. Don’t even take one step into that big ugly store and buy something that no one wants. Instead, make the pledge that so many of us are making to shop local and handmade. But how? Can it be easy to gather all [...]