Hello!
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.
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Curious? Read these stories:
Weaving Tapestry, Learning New Techniques, and Making Art
Tapestry is a slow art form, in many ways, and very different from painting or drawing! Here are some of my latest projects.
Garden Year 7, 2025: Starting Seeds, Blocking Soil, Interplanting, and More
New grape vines, blocks of seeds, more flowers, selling plants… It's a fun year in the garden!
Pickled Magnolia Blossoms
Finding new ways to use the plants growing in my yard is fun, and delicious. Magnolia flowers have a gingery flavor that works great pickled!
Motherhood, Children, and Opportunity Cost
You always choose to do some things at the cost of others. When it comes to having children, the costs can be large—but so can the benefits. How can mothers balance their conflicting values and choices?
Learning to Identify Local Wildflowers
I want to know what grows around me. I hope to learn edible and medicinal plants. And learning flowers builds a connection with the place I live!
Book Review: The Battle of the Classics by Eric Adler
Why bother with a humanities education? Arguably, the humanities are not instrumental to earning a living or getting ahead. In this book, Adler argues the case of the classics: why, regardless of utility, the humanities are as important to education as they ever have been.