Tag: Minimalism
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Storage Wars
My days have gone into hyper-drive and are pressing me to accomplish goals because long anticipated deadlines are in view. The youngest graduated high school with high honors, family visited, there was a delightful home stay from my daughter who has been living in New Zealand and has now relocated to Colorado, and my house…
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Dishwater Tears
This winter of snowdrifts and deep cold has been a blessing. Like all big winter years I’ve had some challenges, my furnace became stingy with heat output and the hot water heater took note and is withholding hot water. I even climbed up in to a very awkward attic space to look at the…
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The Good Life
My lovely, bitterly cold winter break has come to a close and I feel energized and rested all at once, which I believe is how a vacation should leave one feeling. The weather is North Idaho cold. Snow drifts are growing with every shovel, plow and windstorm that blows through. It’s beautiful outside with all…
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Simple Is A Feeling
It is the day after Christmas and I feel content. My family cooked together, watched Bob Ross paint a winter scene on Netflix (sounds boring but we laughed and laughed and were amazed) stood around a fire in the snow with the dogs, listened to music, attended a candlelit solstice yoga class at Sandpoint Hot…
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Reality Check
Sometimes, the road ahead is blocked, but clearing the way becomes part of the journey. Learn to tell when it’s time to let go, to surrender, to search for another road, a different path, another dream. But also tell, when it’s time to move forward, through obstacles if need be, because the dream is electric,…
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Tin Can Tourist
Once I got past the sale of the family home, (which I managed without hiring a realtor) and disposed of all the leftover stuff, summer rolled in. Growing up in Colorado birthed a never-ending love of the mountains. The quiet, pristine scenery fills me in so many ways and I am surrounded by beauty at every turn here in the Northwest. I love my…
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Tradition Transitions
People have asked, “How will you manage holidays with your family in a tiny house?” The question is easily answered as our holiday traditions have already begun to take on a new life. I grew up in a family where you knew how the holidays would behave. Easter brought colorful Easter baskets, egg hunts, honey baked ham and church.…
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Treading Lightly
The house that I will begin building in the spring is 8 ft wide and 24 ft long, a whopping 192 square feet that with loft space will settle just shy of 300 square feet. It has 14 windows, (which by the way is more than the house I currently live in) a full kitchen…
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Tough Decisions
The decision to build a tiny house was a relatively easy one. It financially makes sense, it appeals to my creative nature and the gift of time maintaining less than 300 sq.ft. will afford is enticing. Putting the tiny house into motion is where the tough decisions began. If you’ve ever made a major move in your life…
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The View
I put my daughter on a plane again this week. Waking at 3 a.m. we made the dark, lonely highway drive to the airport for her to continue living the story of her 18th year. I am learning a lot from my girl, and her friends, and my niece, all inspiring young women who are…
The Trek to Tiny 