Posts by Carrie Kenner
How We Learn
I’ve been thinking lately about how humans learn. I’ve always been interested in learning and teaching. When I was a kid, I would play school for hours. I loved school and did really well, in large part becuase I was the perfect candidate for the U.S.-based educational system: I was white, I was a girl,…
Read MorePublishing & Your Dripping Faucet
DIY, Hire an Expert, or Hybrid? Most of our personal and work projects aren’t rocket science, so we actually have a choice of how much we do ourselves or hire out. Whether it’s a dripping faucet, creating a website, creating a garden, or launching a space shuttle (wait, that one is rocket science!) you have…
Read MoreTwo months
I have now spent: Two months living in a van. Two months doing a complicated upgrade of a van conversion. Two months living during a pandemic. I lived on the road in my camper van for two months last summer, making my way from Seattle through the midwest, across the southwest, and up the Pacific…
Read MoreVan Life in the Time of COVID-19
Written March 27, 2020 For the millions of RVers who use their vehicle for vacationing, they have another home to go to. For the thousands of van-lifers and full-time RVers that live out of their vehicles, these are extremely challenging times. They may not have homes, or family or friends where they can park and…
Read MoreThe Build – Part 2
One important thing to remember in doing a van conversion (and in life) is that you don’t have to do all the things at once. In fact, it’s often a much better idea to do some things, live with them, learn from them, build on them, and rinse and repeat. So Part 2 of my…
Read MoreThe Build
Wonder what it takes to turn an empty cargo van into a livable, road-worthy vehicle? To say that this was one of the most challenging (and soul-sucking) projects of my life is an understatement. Even though I have done many physically and emotionally challenging things in my life (including ripping out bearing walls, replacing car…
Read MoreWhere is Home?
What makes a place ‘home’? Is it where your stuff is? Where you sleep at night? Where you were raised? I often asked my doula students, during their introductions, to tell me where ‘home’ is – and leave it up to them to define that for themselves. As a person without a house by choice,…
Read MoreMy first destination
My first destination was Kansas City to visit my dear friend, Margaret, and to teach a Birthing From Within workshop. Twenty-six hours of driving divided by four days = six hours driving a day. Pretty reasonable. Getting through Eastern Washington and Idaho was a breeze. But Montana went on and on and on. But what…
Read MoreOn the Road – It’s REAL
This is where I am today, October 9, 2019. I have a lot of blog catching up to do, but here’s the synopsis: On September 1, 2019, I finally – FINALLY! – left Seattle for my new life on the road, living in a van. That’s a picture of me heading east on I-90, with…
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