Jay Schafer is ready to go to jail to defend America’s right to live in a small house. Seriously. For nearly 14 years this founder of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses has led what he calls “My aggressive pacifist’s campaign to make the built world a smaller place.”
He’s been on Oprah, led seminars all over the country and been active and serious about a very serious issue - housing - the third most common cause for homelessness in America next to addiction and mental illness.
To date, Jay’s approach has …

“I’ve got to have this or I’ll just die!“ she wailed. For ten minutes this seven-year old grabbed things off the shelves at Target and repeatedly, almost non-stop, said, ”I’ve got to have this or I’ll just die. I’ve got to have THIS or I’ll die.“ She only stopped long enough to look at her mother with her hands on her hips and demand, ”Do you WANT me to die? Don’t you understand I’ll just die if I don’t get this?!“ I couldn’t stop laughing, so I turned and …

“The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.”
— Mark Twain

People often ask me if I have a writing group or other resource I turn to my muse falls asleep or goes on vacation. I do. I have several good friends, all writers, that I swap jokes, laughs, tears, curses, ideas and even job openings and photos with. Tom Bentley is one of those dear writer friends. Not only is he hysterically funny, he’s a great writer. He’s also …

Okay. It made my day. Suze Orman, internationally acclaimed financial wizard, Oprah money guru, and kick-ass woman, LIVED and WORKED out of a van in her 20’s. Just freaking made my day. Changed my whole attitude and perception of her as someone who “doesn’t understand us paycheck-to-paycheck” people.
And I quote, from her book Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
“I borrowed $1,500 from my brother to buy a Ford Econoline van and, with the help of my friend Mary Corlin (a great friend to this day), converted …