My Own Personal SAHM v WOHM Debate (An Inventory, Part 1)
What started as a simple post ended up being a bigger, two multi-part series. The introduction is a public discussion of the SAHM v WOHM, a look into why we can...
Category: Life
The Little Details
By this point I’ve read a couple books on minimalism and a few of them have suggested an interesting exercise: If you could start over again, what would y...
My Year of the Open Heart
It’s 2015. A new year. Clearly I have things I’m working on, but I don’t consider them resolutions. These are changes I need to make, for my f...
A Good Year
{A note about AWOL comments: I just realized that my spam filter has been a little overactive lately. I’m sorry so many legit comments were going to spam....
Tis’ the season {For Compulsive Spending}
So it turns out that December is a tough month to admit to yourself–and try to change–your compulsive buying habits. There are two reasons for this....
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything”
It’s only been a week since I decided to change the way I live and already I feel a weight has been lifted. I’ve been moving through my house, getti...
The New Me
In the past three months I lost 25 lbs, got an IUD placed, bought (and was gifted) a whole new wardrobe (and even some new jewelry and shoes), tried in earnest ...
Is this what the future looks like?
Twice this week my daughter has asked for something and when I informed her that I didn’t know where that particular thing was, she told me it was fine. T...
The Beacon
{I’m struggling lately with how to determine if my thoughts and feelings are valid, if they have any basis in reality or if they are simply constructs of ...