Category: Healthy-ho

The healthy hack that’s helping me eat more salad

Posted on May 17, 2019 by heatherlauraclarke

Eating well is always something I’ve struggled with. I guess I hoped my tastes would evolve as I got older and I’d start to want to eat salads and salmon and all the “grown-up food” that grown-ups seemed to love. That didn’t happen. (Salmon… Continue Reading “The healthy hack that’s helping me eat more salad”

Category: Healthy-ho, Recipes

Why (and how) I bring my kids to my Zumba classes

Posted on October 17, 2017 by heatherlauraclarke

My complicated relationship with bread

Posted on June 28, 2017 by heatherlauraclarke

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The following is a sponsored conversation with River Road Bakehouse. All opinions and carb-crazy anecdotes are my own. When you are trying to eat low-carb, the last thing you want is to be contacted by a bread company who wants to send you delicious… Continue Reading “My complicated relationship with bread”

Category: Healthy-ho, It's all about me, Sponsored

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I’m Heather Laura Clarke. I’m writer living in beautiful Nova Scotia, I have a 11-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter, I married my high school sweetheart, and this is the story of my handmade life.

I have depression and anxiety, and I fight like hell every day to keep it from taking over my life. Making things isn’t just a hobby — it’s part of what keeps me alive.

Whether I’m writing novels, decorating a room, busting out my power tools to build furniture, getting muddy in the pottery studio, sewing clothes for my kids, or cross-stitching a swear word, I’m all about using my creativity to craft a life I love.

I’ve been writing this blog since 2009, so if you dig deep into the archives, you’ll meet a bright-eyed 25-year-old newlywed who was basically obsessed with having kids, buying a cozy house, and supporting herself full-time as a writer. (Spoiler alert: she got exactly what she wanted.)