Photo Credit: Melissa Maples You have this life, right? And you have all these things you want to do and a million things stopping you. But most of those things stopping you are excuses, illusions, or obstacles you can work around and just haven’t yet. Seriously. There are few things that will actually, truly stop you from doing what you …
Author: Leah
For My Mom on Her Retirement
My mom recently retired from over 40 years of teaching. For most of those years, she taught Kindergarten. She’s the epitome of the perfect Kindergarten teacher – kind, nurturing, energetic, sing-songy, and able to hold a classroom of young children under her spell. Did you ever have a teacher you loved? Really, deeply loved? One you drew pictures for, wrote …
How To Sell All of Your Stuff
In February, Mark and I sold nearly all of our belongings in an epic 3-day sale (and we gave ourselves just under a month to prepare for it!). Here’s what we learned in the process: 1.) GET HELP!! Seriously – get as much help as you can. We absolutely could not have pulled this off or exceeded our sales goal …
This Life
This life I’m living… isn’t what I expected. But it’s what I wanted. How do I know that? I know it by the aliveness I feel, the tingling running down my spine and giving me goosebumps. I know it by the deep sense of happiness that bubbles up from inside, giving birth to a smile that is impossible to suppress. …
What Has Changed for Me?
Febuary 27, 2015 was the last day I had a permanent residence. In that time, I’ve been in North GA, traveled around Turkey, and I’m now on a small organic farm in North Carolina, in the midst of the Nantahala Forest. It’s beautiful. All of it. I’m sitting on a covered porch right now listening to a chorus of… something. …
What Leads Us to this Adventure
Three weeks ago I was house hunting in my city, just trying to find a home near my kiddo’s preschool and our awesome friends. Keeping life as status quo as possible. Now we’re selling everything and moving to a mobile life in the mountains, renting vacation homes on a month-to-month basis and saving up for our own TinyHome. I’m still …
Downsizing All Our Stuff
Stuff. So.Much.STUFF. Before we decided to shift to a nomadic lifestyle, we were already planning a massive downsize. Because, like most Americans, we have way too much stuff. This house we’re about to leave is the largest space we’ve lived in, and over the 2 years we’ve been here, we’ve managed to fill every closet, every storage space, every shelf …
What’s Our Plan?
Update 1/1/2016 We moved back to Atlanta last November. We got a house, we inserted our son back into preschool – and started working again. We’re about to leave for Hawaii in a few days – for just over a month. Right. Hawaii for a little over a month. We’re sorting out what all this means – being nomadic – …