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We're Jacqueline and Randy, a blogging duo with backgrounds in tech, robots, art, and writing now raising our family in northern Idaho.

Our goal is to encourage deliberate choices, individual responsibility, and lifelong curiosity by sharing stories about our adventures in living, loving, and learning.

Learn more about us.

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Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament?

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Project: How To Make a Paper Mache Taxidermy Moose Head

When a wall calls out for a taxidermy moose head, you answer the call. Read how I made a moose from paper mache!
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Honk! Learning from a Dynamic Public Music Festival

HONK! is a high energy, dynamic, activist street music festival held in Somerville, MA. How can we learn from it to build local culture in our area?
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Can You Have a Baby in Graduate School?

Starting a family during graduate school can be challenging, but with the right support, it's not only doable, but incredibly rewarding!
cover of Daniel Goleman's book Focus

Book Review: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman

Attention mediates our interactions with the world. In this book, discover how awareness affects performance and stress; how to use focus and willpower to accomplish goals; and much more.
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Suburban Backyard Gardening 2024 Recap: Tomatoes, Flowers, and More! (Year 6)

Read how I made this year's garden lower effort, but still with a decent yield! See how crop rotation and my other gardening goals turned out.

Beekeeping Year 2 Recap: Splitting Hives, Harvesting Honey, Readying for Winter

Our bees were busy this year! Here's how we split hives, details our improved harvest setup, how our new honey extractor worked, and what we're doing this winter.

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Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament?

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We're Jacqueline and Randy, a blogging duo with backgrounds in tech, robots, art, and writing, now raising our family in northern Idaho.

Our goal is to encourage deliberate choices, individual responsibility, and lifelong curiosity by sharing stories about our adventures in living, loving, and learning.

Learn more about us.


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Curious about our life and journey? Here are some good places to start reading:

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A Blog About Education, Lifestyles, and Community

A brief history of how the Deliberate Owl came to be and why we're writing a blog about us, our lives, and how we're living out our values.
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Discovering the Traditional Catholic Mass

How I discovered the traditional Latin Mass a few years ago, why that discovery changed everything for me, and what was wrong with the Novus Ordo Masses I'd attended.