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Hello Reader, In case you noticed you received this email on Thursday and nothing on Tuesday, that's because I decided to go back to our once-a-week homesteading newsletter on Thursday, which we had done for 10 years until April of this year. I thought people would prefer getting emails on Tuesday and Friday, but I was wrong. If you're one of the people who hated twice-a-week homesteading emails, I'm sorry. We are back to every Thursday now. While making soap and teaching soap making classes...
Hello Reader, For years, I thought goats were my ikigai. But after reflecting on a few powerful books and the things that make me feel most alive, I realized something deeper: writing is my North Star, and goats are one of the subjects I love writing about.In Discovering My Ikigai, Dharma, and North Star, I share how this realization is leading me back to a memoir that has been waiting in the cloud for 13 years—and why I’m inviting readers to join my writing salon and offer feedback as the...
Hello Reader, In 2004, we built our house ourselves — literally with a hammer, nails, and wood. For almost two decades, we thought we had done a pretty good job.But a series of decisions that seemed perfectly logical at the time eventually led to problems we never saw coming. In my latest Substack, We Thought We Knew Enough to Build Our House, I share how a little knowledge, a lot of confidence, and some unexpected lessons turned our dream of self-reliance into something very different....