It's been a busy week here although I must point out it's not the same busyness we knew when we were much younger, working, looking...

While I've been writing The Simple Home series, you've probably noticed I'm not writing much about what is happening here on a...

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...

Amy left this comment a few days ago: Can you do a post or point me to resources about how to love hard work? I'm finding that being a...

It's been a pretty busy week and on the weekend all beds were full here at the Hetzel house. Cups of tea were made, grandchildren were ...

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I wish you could see my home. It's like heaven here now.  After the cyclone, we had a couple of days of high humidity and rain and now,...

Can you see the horizontal tree trunk in the background? That's the dead tree that came down in the storm. There's a kookaburra...

Hardly any of us have the life we dreamed of back when we had time to dream of perfect lives. When you grow up a bit you realise almost not...