…well, at least as much as my furry tyrants permit! Lots has happened since my 8-year anniversary post. If you’re easily bored and don’t feel like reading a long story (I know I tend to ramble), here’s the short version: After returning to Mesa from our travels last winter, we downsized into a smaller Airstream and spent most of the winter customizing it to […]
Nine years, but really all we have is NOW
I’ts mid August and normally, this would be my nine-year anniversary post. Right now, though, my heart is elsewhere. I don’t know how the last few months can feel like they’ve both flown by and somehow stretched into what feels like a decade… especially the ones since January. Sigh Lately, things feel a little unhinged, a little unsettled. I know I’m not alone in grieving […]
Six Years of Lean FIRE
This month I celebrate the six year anniversary of my last day at work. Celebrate is a strong word, it sounds so intentional. In reality we acknowledged the fact that it had been six years, because a recently FIREd friend and I chatted about her life and challenges in early retirement a couple of days earlier. During that conversation I realized that my anniversary was […]
Poetry at the intersection of FIRE and nomad life
FIRE is not only about numbers and spreadsheets, it can be quite philosophical, poetic even if you are willing to talk to the right people and look in the right places. Several years ago, around 2013 or so, I came across a poem called A Bucket Full of Freedom on one of the many FIRE blogs that started popping up around the time. I unfortunately […]
Poetry at the intersection of nomad life and humanism
The best part of our FIRE life are the people we meet along the way. There is a group of friends we made on the road, that we have camped with again and again over the years, some of which we have known since we began our nomad life back in 2016. We refer to ourselves as the Music and Mind Camp (short MMC), an […]
Breakdowns, break-ins and new beginnings
Frequent readers of the not so frequent posts on this blog will have noticed that I haven’t published an article in quite a while. I even skipped my 4 year FIRE anniversary post in 2020, the beginnings of which are still buried somewhere in my ever growing draft folder. And yes, my 5 year anniversary rolled around almost a year ago, again without a post! […]
Playing with FIRE movie screening in Phoenix
OMC, I did a thing! There’s this movie I’ve been wanting to see for a while. Playing with FIRE follows a young couple and with a small daughter on their path to financial independence. It also features several other people in the FIRE community, many of whom I have had the privilege to meet over the last few years. Over the course of this summer, […]
FIRE three years in: Break Downs, SWRs, Work and other musings
Holy shit! Has it been three years already? These FIRE anniversaries seem to creep up on me out of nowhere. But I indeed have another Fireversary coming up this week, which is a great chance to look back and reflect. I wrote about my first year of FIRE here and here and my second year of FIRE here. Those posts on one hand feel like […]