I’ve spent many hours recently thinking about living here in my home. I’m reading Wendell Berry’s inspirational and powerful book, The World...

It's my birthday today, I'm 76. 🙂  I love being my age. Every stage of life brings new joys and challenges and now is no different....

One of the things I love about living alone is that I can do whatever I want to do. I've always been independent and a loner but this pu...

When I took a break from my blog I spent a short amount of time online but I didn't do much communicating; it was just a way of filling ...

We've come to the end of a two year period of renovations and home improvements. We did the work as we had the money, time and energy f...

Hello everyone. There will be no Simple Home post today but I'll have it up tomorrow.  I had a computer-free weekend while I celebrate...

Like you, I put a fair bit of time into my home. Doing the housework here allows us to live in relative comfort and to invite our family an...

It can be a struggle adjusting to a simpler life. Some people think that the way I live is THE way and that is just not true. I live as I d...

I fear there is a dumbing down battle going on. It's there in food - why would we want to cook for ourselves when there are constantly ...

If you think about all the negatives we hear about ageing, or even if you just watch modern life from the sidelines, you'll probably ge...