HI, I’M TAWNY.

In 2018, my husband and I sold everything we owned to renovate a retired school bus into a tiny home, which we lived and traveled in for the next five years. I documented that time on our social media, Since We Woke Up, and in a book of the same name. In 2023, ready to step into the next chapter after several years of intentionally moving toward a new dream, we purchased land to build an off-grid homestead, a little hollow in the woods of Northwest Missouri.

Today, we still live full-time in the school bus that’s been our home for over half a decade now, parked beside a spring-fed creek that has magic powers according to local legends and is surrounded by acres of abundant forest teeming with life. Our goal has always been to work with the land to create a mostly self-sustaining homestead and food forest, and that dream has now come to life.

In 2026, I started sharing my next chapter, stepping away from Since We Woke Up and creating under my own name, sharing the more personal and behind the scenes moments on YouTube, along with new Instagram and Facebook pages.

I still share bus and homestead life at Since We Woke Up on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.

You can find my first book through any major book retailer, or I sometimes offer signed copies here when I have them in stock. I’m currently working on my second book, and split my time between new projects that have me traveling again and this small farm in the woods I love so dearly. Please feel free to reach out via email or social media with any questions.