I decided to start this series on my longest lived goal  - finishing a draft of my first novel. Why does that burning desire remain ever elusive in fulfillment? How am I going to get there especially at this stage in my life? I want to figure these out in the way that I do… Continue reading Finally Finishing: Secondhand Pep Talks

Find minimalism coming too easy for you and need more of a challenge? Craving more clutter in your life? Want some reassurance that it also takes others nearly a decade to be no closer to minimalism? Then this is the guide for you. 1.Get married and combine your mildly pack rat tendencies with your new… Continue reading How to (not) be a Minimalist in 44 easy steps

And here is the reason I have been completely absent and written almost nothing the last few months. Taking time and space and limiting self-imposed stress was what I needed. Now I'm looking forward to some writing time and enjoying small moments of quiet before it all gets taken up with baby loving. If you… Continue reading Baby makes four

I really do. When moving in with family, you wouldn't think the thing I would be most nervous about would be sharing a house with a bathroom scale. But there it was looming, waiting to tell me that I, in fact, was the elephant in the room. I know myself. While I was pregnant, my… Continue reading I hate scales.

Tuesday, July 5th, just a few minutes past midnight. Somewhere on my computer is a detailed account of what happened right then. I started it to straighten out my own thoughts for a blog post I wrote about car seat safety before I began this blog, but I have no desire to dig it up… Continue reading One Year Later: The Decisions That Matter

I'm sitting here a few days into June and the outside world appears remarkably like a rainy April day. That's probably why I'm having a hard time believing that it is June and that this update needs to be written. Oddly enough, this month went largely as planned with only a few minor hiccups -… Continue reading May Goals

When I mentioned that I was going repost my story about bonding with Aeryn during the first few months of her life, I was asked if I planned to add an update about how much I adore my daughter now, you know, since it was Mother's day and all. That felt disingenuous. I didn't want… Continue reading The day I fell in love with my newborn baby