We’re pleased to share the following guest post by Heather from Want What You Have.
On my blog, Want What You Have, I often write about the pleasures of the simple life. However, my life has not always been simple. In fact, there was a time, not so long ago, when it was so complicated that [...]
At times when we were beginning our journey of voluntary simplicity, I’d often wonder if we were heading down the wrong path. Was it really possible for us to live a simple life given our circumstances? Our situation certainly didn’t mesh with my view of simplicity. Were we being foolish to believe that we could [...]
I’m sure there are some people out there who can decide they want to lead lives of simplicity, flip and a switch and voila, they are instantly living simply. That hasn’t been the case for my family. Far from it in fact. We have found that taking baby steps toward simplicity is the best way [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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