Author: Eva Melusine Thieme

Eva Melusine Thieme is the author of the travel memoir Kilimanjaro Diaries: Or, How I Spent a Week Dreaming of Toilets, Drinking Crappy Water, and Making Bad Jokes While Having the Time of My Life. You can follow her on her blog, Joburg Expat, where she has been chronicling her family’s adventures while living in South Africa, or you can learn more about her next book about a road trip through Namibia with six people in a five-person car on www.EvaMelusineThieme.com. She currently resides in Brentwood, Tennessee, with her husband and four children.

my grandmothers cookbook and its contents

May 29, 2019May 30, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

When Cookbooks Can Talk: Three Generations of Women and Their Recipes

woman screaming and holding her ears

May 19, 2019November 2, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

The Distressed Midnight Purge

contents of craft cupboard before purging

April 27, 2019May 19, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Project #Purge365: A Month of Daily Tasks Part II

colored paper sorted in rainbow colors

April 15, 2019April 27, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Project #Purge365: A Month of Daily Tasks

old photo albums and other stuff undoing #purge365

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

The Great Un-Purging

corks and bottle openers

February 17, 2019March 5, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Corks, Silver Spoons, Weltanschauung: The Places Purging Can Take You

my inability to purge books

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Books, Books, Books!

an organized closet that #sparksjoy

February 1, 2019May 19, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Project #Purge365 One-Month Recap

An empty drawer after Marie Kondo-ing the kids' desk

January 27, 2019February 9, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

From an Empty Drawer to Walking Through the Himalayas

apple phone screen with cluttered apps

January 22, 2019January 27, 2019Eva Melusine Thieme

Decluttering the House but Cluttering the Mind?