small house living

Slumber Party at Campbell Town

“Are you nervous about next weekend?” My friend, Rae, from the present asked me about my impending slumber party with two friends from my past. I shrugged. “No,” I wondered, should I be? “I...

A Page Turner

There are days when heading to the mailbox is just a drag. Bills and more clutter fill the space. Then there are days when the mailbox is full of wonderful surprises: Checks owed to...

Welcome to Campbell Town

A photographer came to shoot our house on Friday, as a photo spread of our spread is going to accompany a story I wrote on The Little House for a magazine and we talked...

The Front Porch has me Covered

We all have our morning rituals, and our covered front porch allows me to engage in one of my favorites – sitting down with a cup of coffee, an actual newspaper, and my thoughts....

Scary Stuff

One fall, my mother allowed me to choose some wax Halloween figures at the Dime Store to help decorate our house. She spent a dime to .49 cents for the little wax witches, ghosts...

Live, From the Tiny House Blog

I’m excited today to have a guest blogger, Kent Griswold, who runs the website www.tinyhouseblog.com It’s interesting to know how people became interested in small house living – and for Kent, this is now...

The World is our Backyard

Chatting over the fence in our neighborhood isn’t an option. If we want to talk with one of our neighbors in their backyards, it has to be done by water. A couple of weeks...