What a brave young woman to live by herself in the wilderness on a Wyoming ranch! I wonder what circumstances brought about her solitary homemaking? This passage–a magazine interview–gives us a very small glimpse into what must have been a fascinating life. -Laurie A young woman in Wyoming writes: “This country is so different, so big, that the horizon alone…

This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Wouldn’t you love to have a maid to help you keep your house? Someone to do all those random chores to free us up for those things that only we can do. We do have modern servants everywhere in our homes, helping to make our lives easier. We’re so…

It is not easy to determine, in detail, just which things are really necessary to refined and beautiful living, and which are the evidence of…ostentatious waste. -1907 The lifestyle of all the cool people for the last several decades–minimalism. Like most extremes, it was the reaction to the unprecedented materialism of the prior few decades.  We’ve all seen pictures of…

Do you organize recipes? I have been there and back again when it comes to finding the best way to keep track of recipes I like. It’s almost comical that this has to be a thing, doesn’t it? But it’s a good problem, I guess. It’s nice to have so much food and have so much variety that I can’t…