Sometime in the past couple of years, while waiting to move to our homestead, while most of my things were (are) in boxes (:::sigh:::), I began using the iPad and its pen for artsy things. I don't gravitate to digital art, but it's all I had (everything else in a box), so out of boredom and ... Read More about Creating a Publishing Company to Print My Own Designs
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Dusting Off the Virtual Things
The beginning was in html I began my life/career on the Internet with an HTML-created website for our garden center, Treasures Planted. I had to hand-code all of it and it took ages, but I enjoyed the work of it. After many naptimes and baby-bedtimes of work, I had created a multiple-page ... Read More about Dusting Off the Virtual Things
Still.
STILL hem-hawing, still wondering What To Do. It's been a theme of the past several years, ever since I realized I was jobless once the kids had almost graduated from our homeschool. I'm a writer, in my head, and in what I think I am. But I'm a "writer who doesn't write," or, doesn't publish. I ... Read More about Still.
Prioritizing My Next Steps
Hi, there! I took quite a spell off, graduating kiddos, purchasing a little forest valley, and packing and moving 20 years worth of things. We were in one house so long, we went from baby cradle to the stuffed animal phase to the dress-up stage to the camo pants and airsoft guns stage to first car. ... Read More about Prioritizing My Next Steps
Doing Something Hard
I'm doing something hard. Sure, that's subjective, "hard" can be many things and I have the recent perspective of knowing a young man who became paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his mountain bike. That's really hard. But my life is the life I'm living, and I can only know what ... Read More about Doing Something Hard
Is Chicken Herding a Profession?
Is there such a thing as a professional free-range chicken herder? I could be that. I should be busy packing or washing dishes or doing any number of chores, but I’m mesmerized by the browns, yellows, whites, and blacks fluttering among the mondo grass, pecking at every plant as a toddler tries to ... Read More about Is Chicken Herding a Profession?
