Well, Rita and I got through week 1 of our online design class pretty well. (You can read all about what we’re doing and why here.) At halfway through week 2, though, neither of us had had time to look at the assignments for this week. (There are 4.) We’ve now briefly looked at the assignments and some(…)
This week Rita and I started a MOOC. What is a MOOC, you say? It stands for massive online open course. The course is being offered through Coursera, an online hub for free and paid courses covering all kinds of subjects–everything from English composition to physics, nutrition, thermodynamics, design, and more. Currently there are 100(…)
I cannot remember the last time I felt bored. Tired, cranky, anxious, overwhelmed? Yes, more often than I care to admit. But bored? Never. Sure, there are lots of minutes in every day that I have to do things I find boring, but I think I will never have enough time to do all the(…)
Once again, we are late to post. Once again, there will likely be only one post this week. It’s not that we don’t have things to say. To paraphrase an old favorite of mine: So many blog posts, so little time. (That applies to both the writing and the reading of them. I’ve been missing(…)
Command centers. Just gonna come right out and say it: We kinda hate them. At least, we kinda hate the ones we see all over Pinterest. I’m sure it’s probably a large helping of sour grapes on my part, but they are all just so dang cute, with their matching file folders and baskets and(…)
We really want to show you a tour of our whole house. Actually, we really wanted to show you a tour of our whole house back before we even started This (sorta) Old Life. We wanted to document where we began, so that (we hope) in the future we’ll have tangible proof of how far we’ve(…)
One of my favorite parts of home/design blogs are the big reveals–the posts where bloggers reveal a newly renovated/redecorated room. I love these posts: I love the dramatic transformations from a (usually) horrible before to the completely re-done after. (If you want a regular fix of the before/after high, check out Better After, a blog(…)