Just like growing a garden requires the right soil, your home needs a proper foundation. Parts of our home looked like they belong in a Dr. Seuss book. Through the years as the home sunk, doors were shaved. Before the house was originally completed in the late 1920s, it was sinking. The evidence–baseboards that upon…
You have no clue what a mountain climb a renovation is. It’s definitely one of those life choices when you truly do not know the extent of what you are really going to do. A renovation is not predictable, at least ours hasn’t been. If you’re living in it, even part of it, it’s even…
One spring we traveled to my husband’s hometown to look for a home after we had decided to put ours on the market and move closer to family. Online searches for homes in the small town were turning up void. We left our kids with family, went to the local walking trail to process what…
Adopting a mostly plant based diet over 10 years ago deeply impacted my life. Before then, I was a worried wife and mother of 5. I feared for my husband’s life. He was overweight with undiagnosed diabetes and off the chart cholesterol levels, making the poorest of food choices. He was in a bad cycle…
Living through a renovation, most of which hasn’t started (at the time I wrote this), is not bringing out the best in me. In 2011, I wrote the following journal entry and find myself reflecting over similar thoughts today. So much has changed since then, but in so many ways my heart is in the…
Grilling out in the backyard on a hot summer day sweating with family and friends surrounding you is what a Southern Summer is all about. If you think of the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, or Labor Day in the heart of the South, you can feel the sun on your face and taste the…
Shane & Simple’s Chipotle Chickpeas, Sweet Potato, Green Beans, and Macaroni & Cheese Don’t you just love how some foods complement each other?! For over ten years, my family has been eating a mostly plant-based, oil free diet. Our bodies know what to do with food from the earth, and when we eat from the…
