Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]
The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]
It’s coming on Christmas, and I wish I had a river I could skate away on, but I don’t so… I’m trying to keep things simple. When people have asked […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about either getting rid of my car completely, or downsizing to something smaller with a smaller payment, or none at all. The reason we have […]
It’s raining, again. Luckily, the rain held off most of today, and we were able to go to the farmers’ market and the playground, and I got a lot of […]
Limping across the finish line into October after my no-spend September. We ended up with a small surplus, about $270, plus the enforced, automatic transfer to savings of $300. So […]
I wish I had posted during my week in Vermont last week, so that I could have a real-time record of how happy I was there. Whatever I write now […]
Wins and losses from the past few days… Win: My dear friend KF saw on this blog that I was looking for a full bed for my middle son. She […]
I bet you never heard this before in your whole life, but commencement means “beginning,” not “end.” We have a lot of endings/beginnings going on around here. Saturday was the […]
Yesterday I decided to take the kids, after school, to the farmers’ market held by the next town over. It’s every Wednesday from 4-7 pm but I had never been […]
There is a aspect of my attempts to follow the Compact and be more of a nonconsumer that I haven’t talked too much about. Namely, my husband. I wanted to […]