My name is Carrie (not Kelly). Welcome to my personal website!

I grew up in the 1970s & ’80s and lived on my own throughout the ’90s. And in that time I experienced a rich & happy life before the Internet became mainstream.

Those formative years were mostly played out in the suburbs (with a short stint in the city) where I was continually surrounded by people and had plenty to keep me occupied.

I personally enjoyed living that life.

Connecting While Miles Apart in Y2K (2000)

But then something happened in the early part of Y2K. I ventured into cyberspace for the first time.

The Worldwide Web is where I met & hung out with my future-to-be (& now-is) husband for the next several months. Who knew I’d make such a significant human connection while physically 500+ miles apart? (This was before Skype or any other video communications platform came on the scene.)

Eventually, we met in person and spent a significant amount of time in each other’s physical world before deciding to marry in the fall of 2001.

Then, shortly after the birth of our first child, we moved back east to be closer to my family. (By this time, my parents & siblings had all moved out to the countryside of Virginia.)

Desiring to stay home with my infant daughter to raise her myself, I turned to the Internet to work from home. And that’s where I’ve been employed ever since.

In the time I’ve been living here, I spent much of it homesteading (or at least learning how to homestead) in varying degrees. As a result, I came to really appreciate the natural world with its natural law and order.

A Rude Awakening Came in 2008

In the first few years here, I bore two more children, built several websites and involved myself in local politics (because my dad was involved in local politics).

But then in 2008 I experienced a rude awakening.

I began to see (a) how bad the American political system was (at all levels of government), (b) how corrupt the mainstream media actually was, and (c) how illegal & unjust the American justice system was.

This was at the height of my political activism and when the presidential qualification of Natural Born Citizenship captured & consumed much of my attention.

By the end of that year, I had lost all faith in our political & judicial systems and could no longer handle watching and/or listening to the mainstream media. In my view, all of those institutions were lost causes — there was no fixing, purifying or restoring the lot of them. So, I withdrew my support and became more skeptical of all that I heard going forward.

And then I started questioning all sorts of things that didn’t make sense to me.

Critical Thinking Became the Order of the Day of my Life

During the summer of that year my husband and I attended a Freedom March in Washington DC. At the time I considered myself a freedom-loving patriot. (Today, I simply consider myself freedom-loving.)

On that occasion, for me, the events that took place on 9/11 were called into question. Someone had handed me a flyer that read, “What happened to WTC7?” And that simple question spurred me on to conduct my first deep-dive personal investigation. And what I learned was shocking. I couldn’t help but talk about it with everyone I knew & interacted with.

At about the same time my husband began looking into the matter of chemtrails. He naturally shared what he was learning with me — and with everyone else around us.

Surprisingly, our friends from church (& all of my family) thought we were crazy. They called us “conspiracy theorists”, even though we were simply calling into question the official stories being disseminated through the mainstream media.

Nonetheless, we persisted in dedicating ourselves (from that year onward) to the pursuit of truth.

Questioning the Unquestionable

And then, in early 2010, a faith-based issue started bothering me.

I started to think, why was it universally accepted within certain circles of Christianity (specifically, in my own) that only nine out of the Ten Commandments were expected to be adhered to? What about the Sabbath Day commandment?

That series of questions led to more and more questions. And none of the leaders at our church were willing to discuss any of the issues I raised in that process. So, I continued to seek the answers out on my own.

Thus, I began to voraciously read the Bible, reading whole books at a time and marking them up with whatever came to mind. I dove deep into studying key words in key passages. I’d look up their every reference throughout other parts of the Bible and consider them in their immediate respective contexts.

I was consumed with wanting to make sense of it all.

The people around me at church at that time didn’t know what to do with me. Still, nobody wanted to talk to me about any of what I was tackling.

So, I turned to Facebook and started posting about all of this on there.

Finding Meaningful Connection Again on the Internet

I welcomed (& considered) every comment made on those posts. I continued to read and study and pray and bounce what I was finding & thinking off of others online. And I always welcomed feedback (whether they were in agreement or not) because I was hungry to learn.

And it was amazing. I started connecting with strangers from all over the world. People were relating to me and my quest, and it was so encouraging.

Soon, however, word got back to my pastor about what was happening online, and he paid us a visit.

Apparently, my posts were causing confusion amongst members of our local church. I was told if I didn’t stop posting those things, I would no longer be welcome at our church. When my husband heard that ultimatum, he told me, “Don’t stop.”

Naturally, I remained careful with what I put out there. But I refused to stay silent about what I was learning.

Eventually, the church leadership handed us a piece of paper that explained their position on the overall subject matter I was concerned with. I thanked them and said I looked forward to discussing what they gave me after going through it.

But they told me it was not open for discussion — that was their position, and if we didn’t agree with it, then their church was probably not the place for us.

I couldn’t believe it. It’s not like we did anything immoral or even unlawful to be let go like that. We just refused to be muzzled in our quest for truth & understanding.

Needless to say, we didn’t last there much longer.

A Whole Other Lifetime

It seems like a whole other lifetime took place for me during the 2010s as I navigated multiple paradigm shifts. (I now refer to that period of my life as my personal Messyanic era.)

During that decade, I endured my own personal wilderness experience (in several ways). While I learned so much then, experiencing both high highs and low lows, it all came at a very great cost — to me and to my family. We were in social isolation at the local level.

Near the end of that decade, we made the decision to move somewhere new. So, we took on a second property in the mountains (still in VA), and we threw ourselves into the local community. Socially speaking, things were looking up for all of us.

Then came 2020, and the world-at-large was turned upside down.

Thus began a whole other lifetime — again.

While I feel like I was a bit more prepared for what happened that year than most, it still took me a long time to get my bearings following its wake.

Now What?

For several years I struggled with what I should be doing with my life — specifically online.

Given what I saw was coming down the pike and my limited resources, attention, time & energy, coupled with all that I’ve learned and experienced since Y2K, choosing the right path weighed very heavy on me.

I strongly believe living online is unhealthy and unsustainable. But in this day & age, the Internet is how most people connect with other people.

Of course, they largely make those connections through their smart phones. And that is one piece of technology I have intentionally avoided. However, it’s clear that social media plays a huge factor in people connecting with one another.

Facebook brought a lot of amazing people into my life during the 2010s. But it also brought a lot of ruin to my life. Besides, that platform has changed so drastically from what it once was. I can’t stand it anymore.

Honestly, I don’t want to engage much with any other social platform, because frankly, I’m sick & tired of sitting on my butt in front of a screen all day. I’d rather be doing other things.

I would love to dial things way back to the dinosaur age before Y2K — when all anyone had was an email address — and maybe a domain name to advertise an organization or business to a broader market.

And then live the bulk of my life offline. The problem is I don’t have very many meaningful-to-me-and-my-hope-for-the-future relationships these days. Most people I know are heading down a path I’m trying to get off.

But I believe there are people out there (accessible through the worldwide web) who are headed in the same direction that I’m going. That is, back to a more natural human existence. And I want to meet them.

And not just meet them but connect with them — and perhaps even stay connected in a more natural, human fashion.

Intentionally Staying Behind the Times & Holding Fast to My Humanity

So, I’m utilizing this domain, CarrieNotKelly.com, (as well as a few others that I’ve carved out over the years) to hopefully connect with those who want to experience a more natural human existence, too.

Here I write about how I’m going Old School, sharing some of what I’m doing to live a more natural human existence.

And on occasion I share some of what’s on my mind and cover matters I’m personally investigating (or have investigated in the past).

I’ve identified a bit of media I’m consuming (or have consumed in the past) as well as some of the content that I’ve personally created elsewhere to also present a broader view of me.

To be clear, I’m not looking for people who agree with me on everything or who necessarily have the same interests as me.

I’m looking for decent human beings, who value truth, life & liberty, and their fellow man and care about living a more natural human existence.

If that’s you, then Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. And I would love to know who you are and get a chance to interact with you. So, please, introduce yourself to me. Tell me a bit about who you are and where you’re from.

I’d love to hear from you. 🙂

Sincerely,
Carrie (not Kelly)

[This was last updated on 5/29/26.]