Guides
Browse by how you live
A library organized the way a household actually works: the kitchen, the shared house, travel that fits this life, recovery at your own pace, and a house in the Arizona heat.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
The kitchen, the grocery run, and eating well at a pace a full house can keep.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
What I Mean by Eating Well at Home
Eating well, in this house, is everyday work — not a cleanse, a challenge or a personality.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
Cooking for Every Generation
Meals that can land when appetites, spice, chewing, and bedtimes don't match, without making two dinners every night.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
Rhythms Are How We Make It Work
The daily patterns that keep a full kitchen going — bread, coffee, and fresh fruit in the morning, lunches packed, and a home-cooked dinner by candlelight most nights.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
The Grocery Run That Feeds a Whole House
Where we shop, how we keep a full house in organic food, and why a practical run beats a perfect pantry — especially in the Arizona heat.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
What's Worth Prioritizing at the Produce Aisle
A calm reading of public produce lists and official residue data — and not a reason to skip vegetables.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
A Pie, a Muffin, and Other Things We Actually Bake
The morning loaf, the muffins we make, and the pies and cakes that show up at our table — written from the baking we actually do.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
Cooking When Energy Is Short
A slower kitchen after a stroke — a stool, a one-pot meal, asking for a hand, and stopping before you are spent.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
How I Read a Label Without Turning Dinner Into Homework
A short, calm way to look at organic claims, the word "natural," and an ingredient list, then move on.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
Leftovers Are a Feature in a Full House
How food actually gets eaten the next day, which is how a bigger cook earns its keep.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
Tools I Reach for When I Cook
We cook with Lodge skillets, an Instant Pot, and a bread machine — the tools that disappear into the habits of this kitchen.
Organic and Whole-Food Eating
How We Plan Meals
We look at what we have, then we plan the meals with Grok.
Multi-Generational Home
Living together under one roof: a shared kitchen, a little privacy, and ordinary systems.
Multi-Generational Home
One Roof, Three Generations
We live under one roof in Anthem, Arizona. This site starts at home, because that's where the pace of our life is actually set.
Multi-Generational Home
A Shared Kitchen
Counters, shelves, and a few house habits that keep dinner from becoming a negotiation.
Multi-Generational Home
Privacy in a Full House
Doors, quiet, and staying close without living on top of each other.
Multi-Generational Home
When Schedules Don't Line Up
Work, school, rest, and an older adult's day in the same home, and how meals still happen.
Multi-Generational Home
Kids in a House with a Grandparent
We moved back so our kids would know their family. Living under one roof with their grandparents is the ordinary form that took.
Multi-Generational Home
What I'd Tell Someone About to Move In With Family
Practical, not romantic: talk about kitchens, quiet, money in general terms, and a way to step outside.
Travel at Our Pace
How travel fits everyday life. Destination guides live on my travel sites.
Travel at Our Pace
The Pace I Travel Is the Pace I Live
The way I travel and the way I live at home are the same idea. My body sets the speed. Then we still go.
Travel at Our Pace
Arizona First: Traveling Close to Home
Why the Arizona guides exist, and how a day trip or an overnight fits a full house — with the place-by-place notes left on Travel at My Pace.
Travel at Our Pace
Traveling With Kids and Older Relatives
A trip with more than one generation is not a different genre of travel. It is the same slower pace, with more people who need it.
Travel at Our Pace
The Day After We Get Home
A trip isn't over when we pull into the driveway. It's over when the house is livable again.
Travel at Our Pace
Texas, and the Places We Used to Live
We lived in Texas, and we came back to Arizona so our kids would know their family. This is the door to that story, not a memoir of every place we've been.
Travel at Our Pace
How I Decide Whether a Trip Is Worth the Energy
Honest criteria after a stroke: heat, walking, who is coming, and the day after.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Everyday pacing after a stroke, at home as much as on the trail.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down
On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. This is the story I can tell about what changed, at home as much as on the trail.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Heat, Balance, and a Slower Day
Shade, air-conditioning, early hours, and not treating summer like a dare — the same lens as the travel guides, applied to an ordinary day.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Fatigue Is a Planning Problem, Not a Character Flaw
How a day gets shaped when energy runs out, including meals, errands, and the ordinary rhythms that keep a household kind.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
What Recovery Looks Like Years Later
About ten years after a massive stroke, some limits never fully returned. This is what a full life looks like at that pace — not a before-and-after story.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
How I Write About Health
Personal experience, official sources when they are used, and no treatment plans.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Pilates, at Our Pace
I go every day, and so does my mom. Other people in the family have gone before too. This is a habit, not a treatment plan.
Home in the Heat
An Arizona house in the heat, and the small habits that keep it livable.
Home in the Heat
An Arizona House That Stays Livable in the Heat
Shade, blinds, air-conditioning, and when to step outside — practical notes from a house in Anthem.
Home in the Heat
Basil and Rosemary
Basil and rosemary grow in pots in the backyard. We don't keep a desert garden, and we have no indoor plants.
Home in the Heat
The Backyard in the Morning
The backyard is nice and sunny in the morning. The basil and rosemary live out there, in pots. We have no indoor plants.