Boyinks4Adventure

While we are home from our one-year adventure of a US-based RV road trip with our family, we aren’t settling back into life as we knew it.  We are resting, making some large decisions about our house and remaining possessions, doing client work, beginning a large update/change to one of our businesses, getting the kids back on track with a more formal curriculum, and caught up on their orthodontia.  We…   Read More >>

Ah, vacations. Travel. Sight-seeing. The chance to “get away from it all”. Living minimalistically. Taking only what you need - just the clothes on your back and a spring in your step. Buying food on the way.  Borrowing or renting what you don’t have. Sounds…sentimental. Poetic. Environmentally responsible. Counter-culture. And, as it happens, hard to do. At least for us. Set aside the fact that we traveled with a fully…   Read More >>

I’ll be the first to admit: I process things slowly.  If I see a movie don’t ask me what I thought of it until at least a week later.  When big life changes happen (like getting laid off from the “safe” corporate job) my immediate reaction is usually a non-reaction, then as days and weeks go by I’ll be better able to tell you how I’m reacting.  This reaction speed…   Read More >>

The current marketing campaign for the State of Michigan is “Pure Michigan”.  Ads like this one feature Michigan native Tim Allen doing the sentimental voice-over narration while the imagery is always during the fall, with the video slowed down and the sun glinting off the water. It’s marketing, and marketing will tend to show only the good stuff.  As native Michiganders we know the whole story - the failing roads,…   Read More >>

Re-entry. It can be a difficult thing when your life-style has not been the “norm” and you know that you’re not the same person you were a year ago. As we moved into the Midwest, and we knew that our return to West Michigan was within a week’s time, Mike and I decided we needed to ease back into the stationary life. We chose to stay at Mike’s parents’ summer…   Read More >>