Earth Day and Good Friday fell on the same day this year and as I result I saw each in a new light. The day before I thought about how I wanted to participate in each. It turns out that the two harmonize well with each other. As a practice for Good Friday and Earth [...]
Earth Day. This year for the first time I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. I never remember celebrating it growing up and I don’t know whether this is true or not, but I have always remembered thinking that all the wearing green, dying rivers green, and drinking green beer was for Americans. And, that most American’s [...]
As we have come to realize that living a financially sustainable life is important to us being able to living a holistically sustainable life, we have arrived at a method that works for us…most of the time. We have put all our debt on a dry erase board with the total at the top and [...]
Kendall and I have been working on paying off our debt. We have quite a bit of it. Most of it is student loans, but there are other significant bits of debt too. It has accumulated over the years, in various ways for various reasons. While I have never felt that living in debt was okay, [...]
A friend of ours told us about a project that his brother and sister-in-law are endeavoring on. They are Jonny and Michelle, boutique photographers, and the couple behind Paper Antler. Their work is beautiful and captivating. Looking through their photos I see hope, love, romance, passion, adventure, and an unquenchable joy for life. Their desire [...]
This New Year’s Eve Kendall and I were having a small conversation over how the New Year that we celebrate does not internally feel like we are entering a new year; we join in the tradition, but it feels like forcing a puzzle piece that does not fit. Perhaps, it is simply that we want [...]
A creamery that is dear to our hearts has encountered some financial difficulties because the FDA shut them down and seized all their cheese. The Estrella Family Creamery makes wonderful cheese and are an extremely generous and kind family. Actually, my request for what I wanted to eat after I gave birth included a spread [...]
Being a mama has taught me that the most important thing I can do to care for my son is be present and available to him. It has also shown me that that is really what all of us need. We need people to be present and available to us. Sometimes that takes the form [...]
I have been writing this blog for almost 5 years now and in starting it I simply wanted to share what I was learning and how to make changes that would be better for the environment. Since then I have continued to grow and change, my life has grown and changed, and as a result [...]
Time flows differently now since the birth of my son. Its meaning has changed, as has its texture, feel, and presence in my life. I mark time differently and I feel its mark on me as having fresh strokes; wet, earthy strokes against my skin. With the birth of my son, a door opened for [...]