Tag: blogging

Typing & Growing

January 20th, 2024

What’s your dream job?

I was never attracted to a fully work from home schedule, but with the idea of growing our family, it sounds more and more enticing. But at the same time, sitting in front of a computer all day distresses me. I am always one to be out in the yard or planning my next garden bed, so in an ideal world, I would love to work a small farm and sell produce at a farmer’s market or sell to local restaurants. But being more practical given our available land and resources at the moment, landscape or garden design might be interesting (though this would require more work out of the house), or blogging and freelance writing of all kinds is appealing as long as I can break the day up and work when it is convenient for me. I am not blind to ghe fact that any job will have its boring or irritating moments, but I believe my drive and motivation for these options would keep me inspired and chugging along for a while!
Stop the Poisoning

January 19th, 2024

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Synthetic pesticides and insecticides. Imagine if pests and insects were driven out in naural ways by introducing predators and listening to the needs of the land. We wouldn’t be paying three times the cost for organic food, our planet’s soil and water health would be much less of a concern, and local, regenerative permaculture – buried in your backyard, in neighborhood farm plots, and in the middle of the city – would be the norm. Or at least in a perfect world I’d like to believe so.
Catch All

January 16th, 2024

Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

My mind! If it’s not my next endeavor, it’s planning a trip, a garden, or a home design. Of course there’s some snooping around online, but I’m frugal and buy very little. Add a dose or two of work thoughts and stress, followed closely by sweet reminders of my beloved husband. And our cats!

This is just a moment in time of everything going through my mind. The challenges, struggles, wants and needs, habits, ambitions, desires, and love.
I Forgot to Be a Big Kid

January 2nd, 2024

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

In all honesty, I didn’t think play was a common personal experience, but the more I think about it, I am overlooking a lot. I associate playtime with kids around and being mentally and emotionally at ease. But even without the laughter of kids, I definitely have moments like that throughout my weeks. My husband and I are sometimes like two big kids laughing and joking around. And I often treat our cats like kids and dance around the house with them! But also, learning taekwondo in a class full of kids sometimes feels like play.

As I continue to dwell on this now (a sincere thank you for this prompt), there are many leisure moments at home that I would categorize as play.

I find it fortunate that I associate play with childhood, and I credit that to my memorable younger years. But conversely, unconsciously limiting yourself from acknowledging and embracing play as an adult is sad. As an adult, you are expected to have a certain level of responsibility and upkeep, but that doesn’t mean you have to write off true play. That release of your worries and embrace of fun and innocence is critical even when the day has zapped your motivation and energy. I am going to focus on seeing play for what it is, and delving deeper into its enjoyment when it is happening.
The Approach to My Blog

December 31st, 2023

I am not a skilled orator and often find myself stuttering or stumbling over my words, but when given the chance for another minute to think through my words, I can piece together a decent script and have grown to enjoy the art of writing. Much of my writing history, aside from my original travel blog, has come from work and revolved around technical writing. You’ll find I slip into passive voice quite often as I find it easy to write in this form. I also believe it can be less distracting to the reader, especially when the topic is not story related, but rather meant to be though provoking. I don’t always want to remove the human aspect as this can give life and energy to writing, but it may help block any biases the reader might have of the writer. I could be wrong, but I’m here to experiment and test out what I like and what readers respond to! So you’ll find a mix of everything. Also, my travel blog began to feel very cookie cutter with not much variation in post structure and content type, so for my sake and yours, I intend for Coffee with the Cats to feel more spirited and authentic.

Showing up to this space is also a new challenge for me to be myself and present you with my thoughts, opinions, and experiences. To better practice this along with my writing skills, I am not giving myself the chance to overthink before publishing. Letting words flow freely without my own harsh judgement and self criticism is going to be the starting point.

Please forgive me in advance for any inconsistencies in posting. I do enjoy writing and dream of growing this blog, but I don’t want it to begin feeling like a chore. Somehow at 29 years old with no kids and only one (demanding) job, my free time feels incredibly limited, so my motivation occasionally gets extinguished. But, I encourage you to stick with me as I have a lot more to share and hope to make this as enjoyable for you as it has been so far for me. Thanks for reading!

Tag: blogging

Typing & Growing

Stop the Poisoning

Catch All

I Forgot to Be a Big Kid

The Approach to My Blog