Words by Molly Hays
\n<\/span>Photography by Steve Soule<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writers, accountants, lawyers, artists: there are as many work-from-home arrangements as there are home-based workers. Still, few have masterfully integrated work and home as organically as author, mother, magazine founder, and master blogger Amanda Soule.<\/p>\n

As followers of Amanda\u2019s widely-read and deeply-admired blog SouleMama know, she has built a career around home: its pleasures, graces, challenges, rewards, and, above all, its enduring importance. When she launched her blog over a decade ago Amanda was a young mother, at home all day with two young boys, seeking a creative outlet. It was \u201cjust a way…to have something tangible at the end of the day.\u201d Fast-forward eleven years, and Amanda\u2019s daily life looks significantly different, with five kids, ages 3-14; three books; one quarterly magazine; an international following; and farm animals beyond count.<\/p>\n

Still, the heartbeat of her work hasn\u2019t wavered. In print and online, Amanda explores everything from hand-plucking hornworms, to honoring kids\u2019 art, to making muffins from leftover oatmeal. All the while eloquently re-defining home, not as edifice or landing pad but as vital, essential source of comfort, creativity and potential.<\/p>\n

All from within the four walls she calls \u201chome.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read more about Amanda, subscribe to CAKE&WHISKEY magazine or purchase the single issue\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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