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For as long as I can remember I've scribbled in a notebook
and called myself a writer.


June 05, 2012

Ode to Montana

June 05, 2012/ Jennifer Savage

I read A Dull and Witless Boy today by Colin Meloy. This is everything a graduation speech should be.

"The world beyond these mountains is a lesser world; it rests on you to make it better," CM

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Jennifer Savage

First person :: Essays from real life

savagemama :: stories on motherhood

To understand my new mothering gig, I needed to write about it. Savagemama was born. A blog now spanning seven years, savagemama captures stories about my tiny daughters, my love of the IRS 1040, growing up Southern and occasionally posing in my underwear among other things. 

282 :: four people, 282 square feet, one year

In an effort to try and escape the middle-class debt trap, my family and I are embarking on an experiment to live rent-free for one year in a one-room, 282 square feet used-to-be-garage. My husband is going back to graduate school and we hope to avoid crushing student debt by living light and small.