How to Overcome Writer’s Block
Tips to overcome writers block, including using Answer the Public to jumpstart your content. You can even better address your audience’s questions.
Mindset
Tips to Overcome Screen Addiction
Try to go without your phone for a few hours, or even the whole day. Like most people, I reach for my phone when there is any break in the conversation, when a commercial comes on TV, or when I am even slightly bored. We are constantly connected. There is very little time in our … Read more
Foraging in the Weeks of Want
Get out of the scarcity mindset! Before supermarkets, there was the gap in the Spring between when your stored food ran low or ran out and when you would have your first spring crop of greens. This period was called the “Weeks of Want”. For the people who were in tune with the land and … Read more
Fight the Fear – Focus on Your Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern
Crisis is a Decision Point. Did you Pass the Test? Most of you are (or should be) adequately prepped and ready for the next ‘crisis’. Yet some of you are not truly prepared for the “next big thing”. Did you learn the lessons from Covid? Where were you on October 4th, 2023? It seems like … Read more
How the Monastery Decreases the Noise in Your Life
Letter from the Monastery – by Perpend Background context: Perpend and I have talked several times, both on the podcast and in real life, about how we (everyone) are constantly distracted by “noise”. The “noise” of people, electronic devices, the notifications from the phone, the background noise of cars. The noise of what you didn’t … Read more
We need a Little More Foxfire Christmas and a Little Less X-Mas (TM)
Take the time for community, instead of the rush. We need candles. We need silence. We need the remarkable quiet of snow falling without wind. It happens very infrequently – when there is a slow snowstorm, no wind, and it’s more quiet than anything, with the snow absorbing every sound. We need that space. Thanksgiving … Read more
The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long
Embrace the change in seasons “The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long. Seems like we’re running out of time.” – Triumph, “Fight the Good Fight”. The growing season is over. I’ve harvested as much as possible of the remaining rocket arugula in all it’s sharp flavor. The trees have dropped their leaves … Read more
My Adventures in PMI and Saving Money on my House Payment
My Experience with Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) and Fighting the Bank Like a good Thriver, I paid ahead on my home loan. When it got below 80%, I called the bank because I didn’t see the PMI come off my payment.They told me it doesn’t come off automatically, but it will come off at a … Read more
Foraging and Pottage – Moving Foraging from a Skill to a Mindset
How to Use Foraged Veggies to Extend Your Oatmeal – Without the Blood Sugar Spike This year I have been more mobile than usual. I am very close to location-independent. I am extremely thankful to friends and family that have let me stay with or house-sit for them while I work through this time of … Read more
Tradition – Can you have Tradition without Religion?
Can you really go back? – by Perpend. This is Part 2 of a series about Tradition. Check out Part 1 of the Series: Tradition – Embrace Sense of Self, Sense of Place, Sense of Time The Homesteader groups and Doomer Optimists on the Twittersphere (now “X”) have been musing for several months on Tradition: … Read more
