About Ingrid Jeanette

Hi!

My name is Ingrid Jeanette, and I live in a small valley in eastern Norway with my recently grown daughter. From a very early age, I developed a deep connection with the natural world thanks to my grandparents and the beautiful place I grew up. I also fell in love with literature and writing, and I have been writing about my life since my aunt gifted me a diary on my 7th birthday.

My first professional passion was early childhood pedagogy, where I loved working in kindergartens to create a wonderful childhood for the next generation.

Due to some health problems (and let’s face it, the change in both Norwegian government and ideas about how to best raise our children), I returned to my studies – this time I got a BA in language and literature. This developed into a MA in cultural studies, where my thesis was an ecocritical analysis of the best selling YA literature of the time.

This time around, I never got a chance to start working. My kidneys slowly failed, and in the end, I went into dialysis for two years. I’m writing this now from hospital-affiliated housing, having recently gotten a new kidney from my mother. We are both doing well, thank God.

And now, at long last, I can rebuild from the utter ruins of the past, and create the life I’ve dreamed of.

My Blogging Journey

My blogging journey started back in 2005, and it became a serious hobby when I became pregnant and decided to be a stay-at-home mom for the first years of my daughter’s life. I started a Norwegian blog for other SAHM’s, and wrote about natural child care, attachment parenting and how to live on one income.

In 2017, after years of focusing on my education, I started Skogfrue.no, a blog dedicated to promoting a natural lifestyle in Norway, along with my more critical articles about society and where we’re headed.

Then, I launched this one – Ferns & Fancies – in 2023. It was originally created to share about the intersection of natural living, holistic wellness and personal finance, which were all of my passions at the time combined. Recently, though, I deleted everything in order to start all over. Time has changed. And I think human writing about human experience is the only way to go in this season of the internet. ChatGPT can give you the how-to’s and the holistic budget plans, but it can never replicate human experience and expression.

So.

Welcome, dear reader (and I do hope you’re not an AI-bot). Make yourself comfortable, and stay for a while if you see this at a time where I’ve gotten around to write some new texts for you. If you want, you can leave your email here in order to get the updates as they come.