Stella is off to summer camp, which means I actually got BORED for the first time in… a long time. I’m a big list person and, like most days, I made for myself a to-do list and got to it during the wee hours. Turns out, when one is not interrupted by the need to parent, one finishes her tasks pretty speedily. It was around 9:00 am and I began twiddling my thumbs.   That didn’t last long— I can’t stand not DOING something, so I began thinking about this nascent blog. Every so often someone asks me about it, or suggests I show peeks into our lives via social media. I sometimes go on little kicks where I put up some hashtags with my instagram posts, but ever since blogging merged with social media and social media content became so specialized, I found it harder and harder to write. Am I a cooking blog? A minimalist lifestyle blog? A tiny house life blog? A parenting blog?   Once it got too hard to answer that question, and it got too hard to document our not-so-perfect house, blogging fizzled. This, coupled with real-life challenges that didn’t feel like they belonged within a “brand” made it seem so inauthentic that I just let it go for a number of years. How can I write a blog post reviewing a composting toilet when my mom just died? Or when I have postpartum depression after 3 miscarriages? I’m an optimist by nature but DAMN. I needed to process those things in my life and it felt like a slap to the truth of my being to just post something random about our tiny house. Because honestly, I don’t really want to write about the tiny house or, now, the sailboat, but about the people who live here. And not even the people, but ME, seeing as my experiences are vastly different from James’s and Stella’s. What is it like to wake up and see the herons hunting stealthily while I walk the dog? What did I grill for our dinner party and how am I so excited that we have neighbors on our dock who all have each other’s backs? What is the Halacha for living on a boat during shabbat? How are we going to celebrate this year’s high holidays here? What adventures are in store? What am I learning in order to teach my fourth graders about Norse mythology?   And on and on.   I want this blog to go back to its roots, which began 20 years ago (!) and were already seeded from journaling since I was a child. I want this to be a place where I don’t need a brand and my dilettante/extrovert/Enneagram 7/ ADHD self can talk about whatever facet of my life feels like needs to come. And, not to toot my own horn, this life is pretty awesome.         I also love a good goal, so for summer I am going to shoot for two blog posts per week. I’ll let you know about them on Instagram and Threads/ you can ditch social media and give it a good RSS subscribe. And yes, I’ll talk more about Stella’s adventures at sleep away camp/how we are coping without our favorite first mate soon!