I’m Adding Something New Around Here – And I Think You’re Going to Like It

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I’ve been a content creator since 2012. Sixteen years of blog posts, tutorials, and making everything look just right.

And I still love it. But lately I’ve been craving something a little more… real.

If you’re an OG reader, you might remember the early days of blogging and if you were there, you know exactly what I mean.

Back then, blogging was simple.

You did something during the day, grabbed your camera, took some photos, sat down at your desk that night, and wrote about it. No strategy. Minimal keyword research. No lighting setup. Just you, your thoughts, and your little corner of the internet.

You hit publish and your “internet friends” caught up with you the next morning over coffee.

If you’ve been around here for a while, you already know this man. My grandfather — my sidekick, my person, the whole reason this blog became what it became.

My entire blogging journey started with a camera, a DIY project, and him right there next to me for almost every step of it. Those early posts weren’t strategies or content plans — they were just us, doing life together, and me capturing every single moment of it.

I MISS those days more than words can say.

Somewhere along the way blogging became a job. And not the kind I enjoyed anymore — more like the “stuck in a box, follow the formula, optimize everything” kind of job. That’s not why I started this.

A very specific, very structured, very optimized job. And while I’m proud of everything Four Generations One Roof has become over 16 years, the partnerships, the traffic, the community, I’d be lying if I said something didn’t get lost in the process.

So for the next 6 weeks, I joined a challenge of instead of sitting at my desk typing it out the next morning, I’m sitting in a chair and talking into a camera for a minute or two. Same energy, different format. Because honestly? I need to get back to the thing that actually put me on the map in this crazy little corner of the internet …. real life, real moments, no overthinking it.

Just real life, shared in real time, no filter. Well, a little bit of editing to get rid of all the “umms!” 😉

Here’s what my plan is for video content that I an considering trying:

1. Selling our multigenerational home after 8 years of good, bad, and ugly
2. Building a brand new multigenerational home from scratch
3. Behind the scenes of working with Jim in his custom home building company
4. Airbnb. How we got started and our recent issue with out RI Airbnb…. it got trashed — cops, a party, and a story I still can’t believe
5. Reinventing yourself, coming out of burnout and menopause.