Have you ever slept in a yurt? Do you even know what that is? My family enjoys camping, and when we discovered yurts a few years ago, we found that we liked the experience. We have long taken advantage of the benefits of camping in Pennsylvania’s state parks, where you can have non-tent accommodations at really good prices compared the same buildings elsewhere. When I discovered that they had yurts in some of their parks, we decided to book ... Read the Post...
My simple bullet journal: how to use notebooks intentionally
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. Before I learned about bullet journaling, I grabbed a notebook willy-nilly, whichever one was handy, to jot down my grocery list, hash out measurements for a project, brainstorm ideas for something, take notes from a meeting, or whatever else I needed to write down. Over the years, I realized that I actually liked flipping through an old notebook and finding something ... Read the Post...
8 Reasons I really love my Kindle
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. I love, love, love paper books. Don’t get me wrong here. I have hundreds of them on 11 or so bookcases scattered about my house. I especially love old ones and ones with pretty covers. I have a soft spot for library discards and other well-used tomes, about which my mind romanticizes all the previous readers. But I have so many reasons to love using Kindle as well. Should you ... Read the Post...
Why you shouldn’t throw away those negatives
This post contains affiliate links. More information here. Recently, I visited my parents in Ohio and began the task of digitizing my mom's heaps o' photos. A couple of my sisters helped me sort them by decade and then I started in scanning the earliest ones first. 1495 images later, I think I'm mid-way through the seventies. My mom saved all her negatives. She had a darkroom as a hobby when she lived in Germany, and I guess she realized ... Read the Post...
