Hello! My name is Amanda and Little Tranquility is a place where I share my travels, recipes, and other musings.
On January 1st, 2010, I started a photo-a-day blog as a way to push myself creatively and sharpen my photography skills. I updated the blog daily, featuring an image I had taken as well as a short (or sometimes long) blurb about my day. As the blog wrapped up at the end of the year and I posted my last photo on December 31st, 2010, I found myself a bit sad, but also a tad relieved that I no longer had a blog to tend to. My dad was my most loyal reader throughout the year and as the days in 2011 came and went, he would occasionally avow that he really missed checking in on my blog every morning and encouraged me to start a new one.
So, in June of that year, I was itching for a change and (with no real plan at all) decided to move from Wisconsin to Washington, DC to start a new chapter of my life. Being away from my friends and family, I found this to be the perfect opportunity to give blogging another shot. That summer, I started a casual lifestyle blog to keep my dad (and anyone else who cared enough to read) up-to-date with my new life on the East Coast. It was fun, kept me writing, and gave me a place to share my photography once more.
Little did I know there was an underground blogging community full of writers, explorers, and photographers who all had blogs just like mine. After receiving comments from kind strangers on a few of my entries back in 2011 and discovering this awesome, new world, I became intrigued and dove right in. Little Tranquility soon transformed from being a casual lifestyle blog into a serious, full-time hobby. I guess you could say the rest is history?
After leaving DC in the fall of 2012, I headed back to Wisconsin for a few months and then packed up my belongings and drove to Seattle shortly after (again, with no real plan in mind), to embark on yet another interesting adventure. I met my husband in Seattle and spent six wonderful years exploring the Pacific Northwest with him. In the fall of 2019, we moved to California for work and lived in the Bay Area for about four years. Although we liked California, we missed Washington so much and longed to be closer to family since welcoming our daughter in the fall of 2021. So… We packed our bags yet again and bought a house on Bainbridge Island, Washington! We’re loving the island life with our 2-year-old and I hope to share more of our adventures on Little Tranquility as she grows up.
I’m grateful to have met so many wonderful people through blogging and to have retained some loyal readers along the way. Thank you so much for sticking around! I truly appreciate your love and support. Here’s to another year full of change, growth, and exploration.
xo,
Amanda
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