After not writing a garden update for a good six months, I'm finding myself publishing them two months in a row. Clearly, it's spring, and there's a lot more going on in the garden. After four summers of minimal time spent in the garden, it feels really good to give it some real attention this…
To start out with today, I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who commented or reached out after reading my post on anxiety on Monday. I had debated writing something on anxiety for a very long time but I hadn't worked up the courage to share it so publicly. As much…
Could you eat just from your pantry and fridge and freezer for a month? Food waste is a huge problem, both for the environment and our wallets, but we continue to throw out so much of the food we bring into our homes. A pantry challenge can be a great reset to make sure you…
Growing up, the month of May used to look a lot like April: gray, wet, and dreary. If we were lucky, Memorial Day weekend might have decent enough weather for a barbecue outside. This year though, and the last few before that, have been unseasonably warm, and we've been seeing weather in the seventies and…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
As promised, today's post will be a long overdue update on the state of the garden (the last one was back in November, so almost six months ago). That said, there hasn't really been enough to write a full post about until now because we had such a cold couple of winter months and my…
It's rained quite a bit lately, with a few breaks for the sun, but the weather has warmed up enough that it feels like spring. And really, it's the mild rain that makes it most feel like spring, more than the sun, because that and the gray is what we tend to see most up…
A year and a half ago, I had no budget. And I don't mean an anti-budget, where I artificially restricted our access to funds by diverting them to our savings account and "paid ourselves first." I mean that we simply lived by the method of "spend less than you earn." Of course, that meant some…
We went out to San Juan Island for the day on Saturday for the first time in far too long. While Lopez Island is our favorite of the islands, we very much enjoy spending time on Orcas Island and San Juan Island as well. The major upside of heading to San Juan is that Friday…
When anyone asks me what my dream car would be, my honest answer answer is to not need one. I realize I could get to "not needing one" now if we were willing to move to the center of the city, but my hope is for some day our public transportation system to have gotten…