Please be warned that this is a dark and reflective post.  If you're feeling a bit sad yourself, you might want to skip this one. Life...

I have been thinking a lot about my life recently, particularly about why I am happy to live as I do while to others it seems like hardsh...

There is no doubt about it, when most of us think of living a simple life, we think of the country.  Hanno and I live on the edge of a rura...

If there is one true thing I can count on, one thing that reconnects me with what is important and tells me, with certainty, that I am whe...

In with a lot of other emails I had one from Ceri through the week.  I asked her if it was okay to answer in a post because I think this is ...

Change is in the air. I can feel it in my bones. Housekeeping, the acts of budgeting, food production, home cooking, cleaning, and caring...

When you think about it, the only time we working and middle class people get to do exactly what we want everyday is when we retire or when ...

Hopefully you've landed in your thirties with only a few debts and a passion for living simply.  If you have, you're in the driver...

I still get emails fairly frequently asking me to define simple living and if I can explain how to live like Hanno and I do.  Many of the ...

Carrying on from the post on sowing seeds yesterday, I'd like to add the following vital information.  While the seed is still covered w...

Even without the overcast sky I think it would have been cooler this weekend.  We've passed through the time when hot turns to warm and ...

Officially, there are two days left before Autumn arrives in Australia.  The Autumn equinox is actually March 21,so we have a few hot days y...