The perfect gift for anyone who appreciates a simple, relaxed lifestyle. In How to Live in Flip-Flops, Sandy Gingras helps readers forget the complicated in favor of the simple, wonderful things in life. Gingras's delightful watercolors and poetic prose showcase the benefits of slowing down and finding happiness in the things that really matter. Whether or not you're at the beach, everyone can relate to the laid-back easiness that comes with living in flip-flops. Includes charming maxims such as: Lose the uncomfortable shoes Be thankful Smell like a coconut Go slowly to see the little things This is the perfect gift for family and friends - whether for those who already embrace an easygoing harmony with the world or for those who need a gentle reminder of what's truly important. "Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement." Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet

The millionaire lifestyle isn't about your bank balance. In the revised and expanded second edition of Millionaire in Flip Flops, The Lifestyle Edition, Sue gives you concrete action steps to follow to create your own life the way you dream of living it. With Sue's guidance, it's well within reach.

A suburban family discovers that trading materialism for a simple life on a tropical island helps them reconnect in unexpected ways. The author chronicles the ultimate triumph of seeing once-frayed family ties grow back stronger from shared challenges and misfortunes.

This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects – flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation. Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This book displays both the instabilities of the 'chains' and the complexities, personal topographies and skills with which people navigate these global uncertainties. Flip-Flop provides new ways of thinking about globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity.

It''s beach day and Penny and Mama are headed to the ocean. But wait--Penny has only one flip-flop. The other one is nowhere to be found. So what good is one flip-flop? Penny soon discovers the answer to this question in this charming story of friendship and flip-flops. Full color.

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We expend massive amounts of energy in pursuit of perfection. If only we could never make mistakes or encounter unpleasant obstacles, oh, wouldn't life be just perfect? Maybe, but it would also be static, unfulfilling, and really, really boring. Humorist Lisa Sugarman knows that life is a work in progress. She knows what we all suspect—life is at its best when it's fluid, unpredictable, and gloriously imperfect. And if this means life sometimes turns ugly and unpleasant, it only makes the good times that much sweeter. Author of opinion column It Is What It Is, Lisa embraces reality, not perfection. We're supposed to be imperfect. We're meant to screw up, make bad decisions, and lose our way. We can't control everything that life throws at us, but we can control how we react to it. With the right attitude and a little guidance from Lisa, anyone can be happy and fulfilled most of the time. Her collection of funny, inspiring, and sometimes poignant columns reminds us that life is not a straight line, even on the best of days, and it's the twists in the road which make the journey so beautiful.