If I could, I would send all of you the magic words that would change your life to what you wish it to be.  I don't have those magic pow...

I have a wonderful life.  I work in my community and am praised by one and all for doing it.  The truth is I get a lot more out of it than I...

Thank you for the kind thoughts for Bernadette.  We went to chemo yesterday and I'm happy to tell you she was pain-free all day.  Maybe ...

I have to refocus myself sometimes.  I need to bring myself back to where I should be.  These past few months have been so busy I've tak...

When I first started living simply, I didn't know what I was doing.  I had no plan and no recipe for success but I knew what I didn'...

Another year has been put to rest and now I'm popping my head up again on my first day of work.  Hanno and I had a lovely rest over the ...

I see living simply as a series of adjustments.  Much of what I'm doing now, I did before but in a different way, or with a different at...

We had a wonderful time yesterday.  We celebrated Christmas early because our family is full of chefs, and chefs work on Christmas day.  Ou...

Today will be a busy one for me. I'm collecting organic chickens and a grass-fed, local beef roast from the butcher, ice cream cake from...

I enjoyed your post. I'm wondering, though, how much your slower more deliberate life is possible because your children are grown and go...

Around our neck of the woods a typical day goes something like this. I rise at 4 and write until the dogs want to go outside, I let them ou...

I had a lovely afternoon tea with most of my Neighbourhood Centre volunteers yesterday.  The one day of the year when we get together to soc...

Oh my, in two weeks time it will be Christmas Eve. It's been a really busy month for me with hardly a spare minute to sit and think abo...

We had a lovely weekend. I woke early on Saturday to bake pastry cases that I'd already prepared and had waiting in the fridge. It wa...