About

I’m Jessica Howe, and Finding Joy in the Ordinary is my running field notebook on ordinary life, small pleasures, mornings, seasonal rituals, slow noticing, home corners, gratitude, and the small joys that happen out and about.

I didn’t start this because I had life figured out. I started it because I kept noticing that the good parts of my week were rarely the big planned things, they were small and easy to miss: the light on the kitchen counter at 7am, a walk I almost skipped, a chair I moved six inches and suddenly wanted to sit in.

So I started treating my own days like a set of small experiments. I ask a curious question, I try something for a few days or a couple of weeks, and I write down what actually happened, not what I hoped would happen. Some experiments genuinely change something. Plenty turn out to be fine, not magic. I tell you which is which.

Everything here is written by a real person, tested in a real (very ordinary) life, one small log entry at a time.

You can reach me at [email protected].