Confessions of a wannabe homesteader
Do you ever feel like you desperately need a change? Something totally, completely, radically different from the way you’re living now? Like everything you’ve been doing is all wrong and suddenly it feels so unbearably bad from all aspects that you just need to light the whole bitch on fire…
I’ve discovered, by way of an app on my phone (BreakFree, if you’re interested) that I spend a LOT of time on my phone. Tons. So much that I’m really afraid to admit the number, to be honest. It’s that bad. It’s no wonder I feel so distracted all the…
I know it’s May, and I should be talking about garden plantings… but I can’t. Not because I don’t want to, but because I literally cannot seem to get into the garden to get it cleaned out so I can even attempt to plant because of all this rain we’ve…
No, I’m not giving up knitting. You can pry my needles out of my cold, dead hands. I am, however, letting go of more yarn. I did some soul searching, and also a bit of thought about my stash, what I like to knit, what I have time to knit, etc.…
 Today I’m listening to my feelings. Today I’m following my heart and quitting a good portion of the internet. I’ve just deactivated Facebook. I uninstalled Instagram. I removed GoodReads. I’m close to closing G+, too. For far too long I have held onto these places. Any…
Here I sit on another Sunday. Another day wasted away at the computer. Working. And working. And some procrastinating. But, mostly, working. Years and years ago I thought the internet was the Best Thing Ever. I loved working as a web designer. I loved going home to my very first…