Be Inspired (Guest Posts)
Want to help support me as I endeavor to inspire you and others to go on adventures? I have not put ads on my site (they can be so annoying! If I ever do, it will be done tastefully!). I am an Amazon Affiliate, so sometimes when I find products I like, I will link...
Be Inspired (Guest Posts)
Dave Wills loves to show off his homemade rammed earth home – the first in Benton County. When you see him and ask about it, he’s happy to invite you over to see it and share with you the wonders of this sustainable construction technique and his...
Be Inspired (Guest Posts), Learn A Skill
In an uncertain world, getting back to primal basics is empowering. Dan Coyle, the visionary behind Coyle Outside, learned this lesson throughout his life and now guides people ages two to adult in gaining confidence with wilderness survival skills such as navigation,...
Be Inspired (Guest Posts)
If you’ve lived in the same town for a majority of your life, how do you take a fresh look at it? Why not explore it, as my friend Tim Holt did? He explored 385 miles of the city he lives in, having adventures in other people’s backyards! Tim and I live...
Play With Your Food, Tiny Living & Vintage Trailers
When you follow your passions with an adventurous attitude, who knows what can happen? The first summer of the pandemic I had the opportunity to interview Jacob Oliver about becoming the first tiny house food truck owner, and his pursuit of turning it into part of a...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Self Care, Shift Your Perspective
Have you heard of picking a word for the year instead of New Year’s resolutions? My word for 2022 is Messy. Quotes On Messy “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!” – Ms. Frizzle, Magic School Bus The middle is messy, but also where the magic happens –...
Be Inspired (Guest Posts), Chocolate
Sophie: “Dad, wouldn’t it be great if there were an ElfCon? You know, an event like Santacon but where kids can be a part of it.” Dad: “That sounds terrific. Why don’t you create it?” Sophie, thinking later that night before bed: “Yeah, that would be pretty cool.”...
Tiny Living & Vintage Trailers
What do you want? When following your passion, the advice is to find what makes you feel good and go do more of that. If you believe in manifesting or the law of attraction, then the next step is that more of what you like shows up. It’s not all magic and mantras. ...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Shift Your Perspective
“I’m not lost, I’m on an Adventure” How do ensure you aren’t lost? Since the 11th century, sailors have used compasses on their journeys. Myth has it that sailors would get tattoos as a good luck charm, and often as an act of hope and faith to return home. These...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, ABC is Always Be Curious, Be Inspired (Guest Posts)
Amy was, as she describes herself, that hamster on the hamster wheel. That crazy hamster, running and running and running. Reacting to everything. Irritable, cranky and anxious. She was often yelling at her two young daughters, unable to be present emotionally for...
Self Care, Travel (and Burning Man)
Have you listened to an audiobook and regretted not buying a hard copy because so many thoughts, phrases or concepts inspire you so much you want to highlight them? This happened to me while listening to “The Scene That Became Cities: What Burning Man Philosophy...