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. I’m fortunate to have the best of all worlds, splitting my time between new projects that have me traveling again and this small farm in the woods I love so dearly where my family resides.

In early 2026, I began creating under my own name for the first time; I now share more of my inner world, along with my writing, on these new Instagram and Facebook pages. I also started a YouTube channel to share longer videos, allowing space for more in-depth stories to emerge.

I still share that outer world I am so grateful for at Since We Woke Up. You’ll continue to find my day to day living in a school bus turned tiny home and adventures on the farm on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, along with the new YouTube and a Substack I will start adding my writing to later this year.

You can find my first book through any major book retailer, a memoir of turning a school bus into a tiny home, the first two years of living on the road, and all the lessons I learned along the way. I’m currently working on my second book, a cultural memoir exploring themes of grief and wonder, community, and our individual lives within the larger societal narrative. Please feel free to reach out via email or social media with any questions via the social links above and below.

Tawny is represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory.