Posts Tagged "marriage"

You Can Buy Happiness: An interview with Tammy Strobel

Posted by on Sep 20, 2012 in Recent Posts | 4 comments

You Can Buy Happiness: An interview with Tammy Strobel

Tammy’s “book baby” You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too hit the shelves this week! This is a wonderful read–I couldn’t put it down! If you desire a simpler, more fulfilled life, you’ve got to get a copy of this book. Tammy’s honest narrative style is engaging, and her micro actions offer clear steps to simplifying and living a happier life. I found myself nodding my head in agreement and found lots of actions that will help me continue to simplify, follow my intuition and lead a truly happy life. * * * Hari: You have come a long way since sitting in a...

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Tiny House Reforms a Messy Housekeeper

Posted by on Mar 3, 2012 in Benefits of Living Tiny, Downsizing, Recent Posts, The Backstory | 16 comments

Tiny House Reforms a Messy Housekeeper

With spring right around the corner, I am thinking about entertaining friends on our deck. I am remembering the last deck gathering I hosted and am celebrating how much I’ve grown. If you are overwhelmed by your current situation, I want to give you encouragement. Sometimes, letting it all go is the only way to go (grow)! Blessings. . . At the end of August, 2011, I had a group of women over for breakfast on the tiny house deck. We had just moved in a few months earlier, and I was passionate about giving my in-depth tiny house tour. As I was lifting one side of the couch to say “This is where we keep our dirty clothes.” I remembered our 1500 sq. ft....

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Digging Rocks

Posted by on Sep 3, 2011 in Building the Tiny House, Recent Posts | 15 comments

Digging Rocks

There is a growing pile of rocks in the garden. Each one of them dug from beneath the surface with a shovel and garden fork. Backs throb, forearms ache. The back of my right knee sore from the repetitive motion: stick shovel in, jump on it with right foot, pull back, repeatedly stab the chunk of loose earth to find rocks, bend over, pick up rocks and toss. We toss the rocks into a milk crate and carry cratefuls to the pile over and over and over. We are about three-quarters of the way across the garden as fall approaches. It feels like so much work, but in reality Papa has done most of it. His ability to persevere and make all of our big ideas come to life has been an...

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