This Less Waste Life

I’ve been wanting something other than coffee or tea for my afternoon pick me up so I made a quick chai tea base that I simmer with 4 oz milk and 4 oz water for 5 minutes then add some maple syrup and strain into a mug. Depending on my mood, I might add saffron …

Andrew and I finally did something we have always wondered if we could/would do. Our vegetarian friends might want to skip over this. We love our backyard chickens and thanks to them, we have fresh eggs, a way to compost our produce, and general entertainment for us and the kids. The tricky thing about getting …

Trigger warning that this might raise your defenses so I’m going to offer a tool to get through it. It’s the same thing I suggest to people when learning about racial justice. 1) Read it like it’s not referring to you 2) Then, after you’ve read it, think about how it is referring to you. …

If you had asked Andrew the past 1.5+ years about what hair type I had, he would probably tell you, “Gross. She has gross hair type.” And while I would have classified it as “experimental hair type,” his answer would probably have been more accurate. But not anymore, folks! No, my hair is now soft, …

I recently got into it with a man at the local pumpkin patch. Though it didn’t come to fisticuffs, I was frustrated when I left the exchange. Days later, that frustration was replaced by humility when I had to practice what I preached. I won’t go into the whole story but let’s just say kids …

Everyone who reads these posts knows how I feel about living seasonally so I will spare you the “ode to living seasonally”. But though the passion runs deep, the practice of it is only about a year old for me. As I continue to dive deeper into it, I find new ideas that I want …

It took me a really long time to figure out the style I wanted for my home. I’ve never had much of a personal style, as I was reminded recently when a school friend from home posted pictures recently from our middle school days (Thanks, Asch!), nor have I ever really had a decorator’s eye …

Nothing to see here, folks. Just me and my army of canned tomatoes. 50 lbs down and 50 more to go. I thought I’d take a minute to write about why I can tomatoes because from the outside, it probably seems like an old fashioned, lot of work scenario for something you can buy cheap …

This post is not necessarily less waste so I feel like I need to start with that. I’m sure that you could make it less waste by acquiring everything secondhand but I am going to be completely honest here and tell you that I didn’t. No, necessity/insanity drove this sinful buying spree. I was losing …

About 6 years ago, I went to Haiti for a medical missions trip. (Don’t worry, I worked in the pharmacy and was not operating on anyone.) I have a lot of opinions about mission trips that I won’t go into here but what I will say is that I took away a HUGE appreciation for …