About

ThePathLessTraveled.net

The theme of ThePathLessTraveled.net is taking the hard, good road in life. The one that gives us all those fundamental things we desire: happiness, fulfillment, and warm lasting friendships.

I cover a lot of topics including but not limited to

• Personal Finance
• Spirituality
• Productivity
• Simplicity
• Sustainability
• Morality
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Health
• Sociology

If you're interested in any of these things (or anything in the tags), you'll probably find something on TPLT that interests you.

Who Is Monique?

I'm a 20 something Ann Arborite, who's been interested in taking "the path less traveled" ever since I first heard the phrase. Some examples:

• I went into Engineering (and Electrical Engineering to boot!) because there aren't many female engineers. At the time I thought this was the path to making the world a better place...
• I was completely sexually abstinent until I was 20 years old when I met my husband, Aaron. After that we were mostly abstinent until we got engaged three years later.
• We use Fertility Awareness for Birth Control.
• We're mostly vegetarians.
• We cook most of our meals, have a garden, buy most of our food from the local co-op and the farmer's market.
• I feed my cat, Rorschach, raw home-assembled meals.
• We live frugally, and track our monthly spending meticulously. We don't have credit card debt.
• I've taken leadership positions in organizations I care about.
• I'm planning to homeschool my future children.

You get the idea. I try to live a concious, virtuous, happy life. Am I perfect? No, of course not. Should you take what I say at face value? No, of course not. If something I say doesn't make any sense to you, you shouldn't follow along blindly. But hopefully, more often than not I'll write things that do make a lot of sense to you. Other good things to know about me: when I'm not at my day job and I'm not writing I'm probabaly either singing, playing some kind of musical instrument, sewing, reading, making silly faces, dressing up in sillier clothes, playing dungeons and dragons with my friends, watching Star Trek (or Babylon 5 or Lois and Clark), or playing with Rorschach.

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Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy. ^_^