Partnering with a GPT: How a Digital Productivity Specialist Transformed My Days
How a GPT Became My Personal Productivity Specialist If you had told me a week ago that an AI would transform how I manage my day, I would have loved the idea and wondered why I hadn’t thought about it sooner. After all, I’ve always thought I could go at it alone—juggling responsibilities, managing time, and finding motivation all on my…
A Community Worth Fighting For: The Story Behind The Last Exposure
A Community Worth Fighting For: The Story Behind The Last Exposure Some ideas grab hold of you and won’t let go. That’s how The Last Exposure: A Tale of the Dying West began for me. It wasn’t part of a grand plan or a carefully mapped-out creative vision. Instead, it arrived suddenly—like one of those moments where life whispers, Here, this…
Winter’s Reality Check: Finding Rhythm in the Dark Season
You know that feeling when winter first hits? Not the calendar winter, but that first morning when you wake up and something feels different? That happened this week, and it’s got me thinking about how everything changes with the seasons – especially here in Wyoming. The locals keep telling us ‘just wait for January’ with this knowing look that makes…
Less Chaos, More Life: How Simplifying Changed Our Daily Rhythm
Standing in our kitchen – the first room you see when entering our 980-square-foot home – I realized something profound the other day. The same tasks that once felt endless in our larger house now take minutes. What changed? It wasn’t just the square footage. By simplifying everything from our dish count (exactly two of everything per person) to our…
Empty Kitchen, Fresh Start: How Moving Forced Us to Ditch Processed Foods
Sometimes the most powerful changes come from having no choice at all. When we moved to Wyoming, our kitchen started as empty as our preconceptions about cooking. No familiar boxes of stroganoff, no pre-made meals, no processed comfort foods – just empty cabinets and a decision to make. I could have easily filled those cabinets with the same processed foods we’d…
The Great Purge: How a 2-Week Declutter Changed Our Lives
“When we decided to move to Wyoming, we knew our 2,100 square foot home’s worth of belongings wouldn’t fit into our new 980 square foot space. What we didn’t know was how quickly and dramatically we’d need to downsize – or how liberating it would turn out to be. We had just 2-3 weeks to decide what would make the journey…
