What’s worth keeping?
Most of us spend our lives being told what to do:
Be more productive. Be more successful. Buy more. Achieve more.
Life Keeping begins with a different question.
Welcome to Life Keeping, a place where we explore how to build a meaningful life, one ordinary experience at a time. Here, you’ll find thoughtful observations and quiet practices that help everyday life feel more deeply lived.
We aren’t trying to make life perfect. We are trying to make it align with what matters.
What You Can Expect
Each month you will receive:
Two personal essays that explore building a life that fits.
The Weekly Basket, a roundup of things I’m reading, noticing, trying, and finding worth keeping.
Life Keeping may be for you if…
Life Keeping is for people who are paying attention; people who are looking at their lives and wondering what still fits, what needs to change, and want they want to keep.
You may feel especially at home here if:
you’ve ever found yourself asking, “Why am I still doing this?”
you think ordinary days are worth paying attention to.
you love to collect journals, lists, books, or little treasures that tell the story of your life.
you want your life to stop feeling busy and start feeling full.
you are learning to trust yourself.
you want to figure out what actually matters.
I’m Marisa, a 40-something mom of three and a former teacher and school librarian, living in the Texas Hill Country. I love to read, write, garden, and sit on my porch and stare at my garden.
I started Life Keeping in my forties as a way to begin to build a life with more self-knowledge than I had when I was starting out and to follow my lifelong dream of becoming a writer.
I’m glad you found your way here. Come sit with me. Let’s build a life on purpose.
Where to Begin…
Start here to read a little about how Life Keeping came to be:
Take a peek into my longtime journal habit:
Nobody Told Me To Do It, I Just Did
Welcome to Life Keeping, a place where we explore how to build a meaningful life, one ordinary experience at a time. Here, you’ll find thoughtful observations and quiet practices that help everyday life feel more deeply lived.
