I’m Kristopher Koenemann, and Simple Weekend Habits is where I keep a running account of ordinary weekends, Saturday moving into Sunday, week after week.
I’m not a lifestyle coach, and I don’t have a five step plan for a better weekend. A few years back I noticed how alike my weekends had become to my weekdays, rushed, half distracted, gone before I’d really been in them. So I started paying closer attention on purpose, to the first hour of a Saturday, to a slower breakfast, to a walk with nowhere in particular to be. This site is mostly a record of what I’ve noticed since.
The essays here cover the whole shape of a weekend: Saturday mornings, slow Sundays, life around the home, cooking and the table, walks and the outdoors, deliberately doing less, reading and small making, and how all of it shifts with the season. None of it is advice exactly. It’s closer to a weekly log of what happens when you actually keep the two days you’re given.
Everything here is written by a real person, no ghost-written filler, no pretending every weekend goes well. If a piece is honest and true to how the Saturday or Sunday actually went, it’s doing its job.
You can reach me at [email protected].