Decision fatigue is a real thing. The constant need for making decisions while living on the road sometimes leads to mental exhaustion. This in turn leads to lethargy resulting in poorer decision making and eventually a refusal to make any decisions. The latter I experienced on more than one occasion. I complained to a sympathetic listener… Continue reading Decision Fatigue: Van Life Reality
WRITING MY BONES
My Toothbrush Tale: Quirky Moments in Van LifeÂ
A funny thing happened while I was brushing my teeth this morning. Yes, van life can be very humorous…. If you allow yourself to see the funny side. I could smell something faintly funky. I looked at my toothbrush. Sniffed it. No, it was not my toothbrush. So where was the funky odour coming from? I… Continue reading My Toothbrush Tale: Quirky Moments in Van LifeÂ
More or Less: Minimalism and Van Life
Photo Courtesy of leone-venter-VieM9BdZKFo-unsplash.jpg Dear readers, I took a brief hiatus from writing, and I thank you for your patience and your support. I recently ran into car trouble and felt rather 'grounded' for days which grew into weeks. My car still has a funky sound, but I feel less troubled and now I can… Continue reading More or Less: Minimalism and Van Life
Simple Pleasures, Sacred Spaces: How Privacy Empowers My Van-life
... one of my fears has been that I would waken to find a stranger staring at me through my window.
Between Peace and Happiness
This morning I made coffee using a park picnic bench. As I waited for the water to boil, I looked up. Sunny blue sky, hinting at a warm spring day. After sleeping almost nine hours last night, I noticed an inner quiet. Not the usual tumult of plans or other random thoughts that cross my… Continue reading Between Peace and Happiness
Embracing Van Life: Beyond Questions of Money and Toilets
I have been exploring van life for around eight weeks now. I shelved my ideas about what life was supposed to look like after my children left home and instead, I took a road less travelled. This road is full of surprises, mostly pleasant and the longer I am living on the road, the more… Continue reading Embracing Van Life: Beyond Questions of Money and Toilets
Learning to Dream Again: Van Life and Purpose
The idea of living on purpose is a not a new one. I think it is human to raise one’s head and wonder if there is a purpose in life. I have often pondered this question. Sometimes I have an answer, but most times I do not. Am I living a purposeful life? I certainly… Continue reading Learning to Dream Again: Van Life and Purpose
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The bookcase Four years ago I discovered Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. There was even a Netflix show made about how to use her methods of tidying. Yes, I watched every episode. Reading her book felt like a fresh breeze blowing through the windows of my life. Something had been missing in… Continue reading More or less
On Writing Well
After only two chapters of Zissner’s book, I know my writing holds too much clutter. Anyone who knows me knows clutter is a personal issue. I am at war with clutter in my home. To consider it a bane of good writing is a surprise.
Choosing change
Change is as close as your breath . . . ... it can happen in a heartbeat. or not ... But, breathing requires inhaling and exhaling. Change means you have to let go of the old before you can replace it with the new. Some would say it is the same as that old saying, empty the… Continue reading Choosing change
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The Fences in My Head
How many times have you read or heard that the only limitations in our lives are those in our heads? I have seen it, read it, heard it a bazillion times (that's my favourite word at the moment, bazillion!) But I still didn't get it. I saw the animated movie Chicken Run years ago and… Continue reading The Fences in My Head
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