Blogging with Carrie Kenner
Stories and wisdom ranging from doula education to marketing to road-tripping...
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,…
Be Revolutionary!
I was recently filling out an online dating profile (yes, I’m looking’ for love ♥), and one of the profile questions took me back to a birth I attended eight years ago. The question was: What’s the favorite compliment you ever received? My answer: “You are a true revolutionary.” Okay, I’m a sucker for anything…
Solar Eclipse 2017
We woke up at 4am, put a case of Mason jars filled with rain water in the trunk of the car, grabbed my moonstone pendant, and headed down I-5 to Salem, OR. That was four years ago yesterday, and my son and I were on our way to witness a total solar eclipse. It was…
Two 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…
Van 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…
The 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…
The 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…
Where 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,…
My 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…
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