Well, here we are! PRACTICES is now available for free (at any level for the month of July 2018) when you join us on PATREON! Read on…or take a quick watch at the welcome video above (it’s hilarious) and com’on back.
I’m so excited about this opportunity on so many levels: a real help to have a healthier and happier home, a platform where I can meet you in a semi-closed community, and a support system to enable us to pay the real bills it takes to keep up a website and to publish podcasts and books.
Perhaps you didn’t know I was ready to hang everything up. Keeping up on website and technological changes and updates was draining me. And I was stressing over online attacks and battling with hackers–it was never my intention to do that when I opened up my little blogsite so many years ago. When GDPR hit (you probably saw about a hundred emails show up about privacy policy updates) I thought I would huck my computer into the Puget Sound.
Instead I asked Tom, “I can’t do this…how much is this *hobby* of mine costing us, really?”
He told me. I was aghast. He wasn’t. He commited to help us find a way, and Patreon is it. I’m happy because I don’t need to take ads on my website that I may or may not agree with. Which, I know…could pay the bills. And yet. So I’ve stubbornly eshewed taking on outside advertising to maintain a relatively quiet website.
Second, I’m happy with Patreon because I now have a semi-private community with which to interact with. I know many of my readers are on Facebook, but I still cannot bring myself to go there, despite everything I’m missing. It’s not that it’s evil, it’s just that I know myself. Instagram is more than enough of a social media outlet for me (you can join me there, if you’d like).
And, lastly, I’m happy with Patreon because no one has to pay anything to keep reading this blog or listening to our podcast. This upcoming August, anyone can purchase PRACTICES from Amazon (or not!). I feel like A Happy Home Media will be in equal exchange for time and effort, and that encourages me to keep this little corner of the internet up. I also feel better equipped to stand up when attacks come, because I have done all I can do to maintain good relationships and financial sustainability.
What’s our vision for the future of A Happy Home Media? Give us a listen and call us crazy, but we know all things are in God’s hands, and His feet never take ours outside of His will. So…we shall see, won’t we?
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Watch the book trailer for PRACTICES below.
HERE is where you can find Tom’s Color Blind Glasses for purchase. Watch his response as he tries them on for the first time.
No matter what your own vision is for your home and life, it’s nothing compared to the vision GOD has for your home and life. Do what you can–incorporate those PRACTICES and put on your glasses–but keep your eyes ever on JESUS.
Blessings,
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