How to Live in Flip-Flops [Hardcover]

<p>The perfect gift for anyone who appreciates a simple, relaxed lifestyle.</p><p>In <strong>How to Live in Flip-Flops</strong>, 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:</p><ul><li>Lose the uncomfortable shoes </li><li>Be thankful </li><li>Smell like a coconut </li><li>Go slowly to see the little things</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>"Sandy Gingras evokes how good things can be when you and your environment are in happy agreement." <br><strong>Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet </strong></p><p><strong>Sandy Gingras</strong>is a writer and artist for her own design company, How to Live. She holds a masters in English from Duke University and another in counseling. Gingras resides on a beach near the New Jersey coast, where she actively helps to preserve open spaces and wetlands. </p><p><em>"Always maintain a kind of summer, even in the middle of winter."</em><br><em>Henry David Thoreau</em></p><p>A life in flip-flops is a cheery life (it's hard to take ourselves seriously when our shoes are making funny noises). It's a slow life (difficult to run in such flappy shoes). It's easy (slide in-slide out) and sunny (wear SPF on every toe). It's a life as casual and silly and colorful and sweet as the designs upon our feet.</p><p>When we open up our feetl3o