I *heart* graph paper

Spent some time sketching floorplans and brainstorming about the house again last night. It’s coming along, though figuring out storage for clothing is proving to be an interesting challenge, and not having laundry facilities readily available will be a really rough transition. Not sure what I may or may not give up in order to… Continue reading I *heart* graph paper

Living lean: cleaning out clutter in my life.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my house, and how I got to this place of being EXCITED to live in ~200sft, from where I was when I was younger. At one point when I was about 15, I realized that I’d never be able to run away from home unless I figured out what… Continue reading Living lean: cleaning out clutter in my life.

Conversion Rate: Saving for a TinyHouse

No longer am I a person who holds the stifling and consistently disappointing belief that I must count on the concerted efforts of a parter, selling my soul to a horrible desk job or winning a lottery I don’t play to make home happen for me. On this, the day the world should end, I… Continue reading Conversion Rate: Saving for a TinyHouse

Rock Lobster: Finding home

Ever since I can remember really, I’ve felt a deep sadness when passing seafood tanks full of crab and lobster in the supermarkets. The way they’re piled in on one another with their claws drawn shut, robbed of their dignity and eventually their lives, bothers me. Deeply, profoundly, seeing them treated that way has always… Continue reading Rock Lobster: Finding home