I got the chance to grow up in this country because my parents wanted to get away from political and economic persecution and ensure I...

So now that I've decided we'll homestead creatively...what does that mean? I'm trying to develop some guiding principles for us. Whenever it's time to make a big decision, we'll make them based on the path most aligned to those principles. This is nothing new, I think people generally function like this. I just want to be as intimately familiar with, and faithful to, our family principles as I have gotten with those of the corporations I've worked with and I want to be intent

I've been in hiding; struggling against myself: Question: Why am I doing this? Internal Judgement or maybe just fear of being judged by...

A few weeks ago I shared a little about why we moved into a camper just outside of Live Oak, FL. Someone reading that post might wonder why a house that was 80% done would take over two years to finish. Well, I forgot to mention some crucial details. The house was an unfinished construction project that sat for so long it had begun to decay. When we really got in, we had to do a lot of gutting. I would say we took it back down to 50% before we started building it back up. And

It's coming together and I'm getting excited. My dad, our, depending on the day, general contractor, plumber, electrician, or handyman,...

A year after purchasing our project (a CBS house with all rough inspections passed and about 80% complete), I got the idea that we needed to move, sooner rather than later, if we wanted the project to move along toward completion at a more steady pace. 400-mile weekend trips to spend a single day working on a project, which we never had enough time to finish, was exhausting and inefficient. Worst of all, halfway through 2021, I got the sense that there was a lot I wasn't doin