I thought I’d just write a bit about me, my philosophy on home-making, and my writing here on my new blog.

I’ve done corporate marketing and communications writing for a long while on the northwest coast, including Seattle, and now my home, Portland. Like all mothers, I try to strike a good work-life balance in juggling work demands, work and family. At some point, I began to recognize that the whole modern workaday schedule tends to leave insufficient personal time to reflect and express creative ideas.

I recognize now that one must live with intentionality, and set up habits for personal time, reflection and meditation, and for creative expression. I’ve begun chiselling-out time in my schedule now to have an hour or two of personal time per day, and this blog is a portion of that — it’s a reflection of my creative outlet. It’s not that I think the life and ideas of Jeannette Tomanka and her projects are necessarily all that better than others’, or more deserving of attention — it’s that I wanted a bit of a public journal of some of the things that I do and find inspiration in. The things I post here are partly very personal life landmarks — a resource where I can look back and revisit things that I’ve done before and written before. So, partly it will be some of my train-of-thought personal musings, and also tips and how-tos for those that would like to do some of the fun things that I discover. Read More→