Mike Donghia, Author at This Evergreen Home
Mike’s Experience
Mike Donghia is co-founder of This Evergreen Home and a daily contributor to the blog. He writes about minimalism, simple living, habits, time management, and frugality– all topics he has been passionate about since college. In fact, his first blog, which he started in 2011 in his junior year at Messiah College was named, Art of Minimalism. You can still check it out via this link on the Internet Archive.
Mike lives simply and minimally with his wife and four kids in Pennsylvania. In their first two years of marriage, he and his wife paid off $70,000 in student loans through extremely frugal living. He has become something of an accidental expert on habits thanks to his many attempts, failures, and eventual successes.
Over the past four years he has written hundreds of articles for this blog as well as guest posting on other popular intentional living blogs. He also maintains a weekly column on mindset at Epoch Times.
Contact Info
There are 3 easy ways to contact Mike. He typically responds within a day.
- Blog email: hello@thisevergreenhome.com (Mike & Mollie both monitor this account)
- Personal email: mikedonghia@gmail.com (reach Mike directly)
- Phone number: 717-405-8253 (texts only, please)
Quick Facts About Mike
- Full name is Michael Scott Donghia (yes, like Michael Scott from the office)
- Writing publicly on the internet for 14 years (2011-2025)
- Have grown two blogs to over 1,000 email subscribers
- Lives in Pennsylvania, United States
- Self-published an ebook in 2011, Rise Above the Noise (here’s an old review)
- Attended Messiah College from 2007-2011 earning a Bachelor’s degree in the humanities
- Former cross-country runner, Oriole’s baseball fan (yes, that’s him in the video orange jersey), and book lover
- Favorite topics to write about: how to live with less, how to focus, how to make progress towards goals
- Currently works at Kairos University as Director of Marketing (formerly Evangelical Seminary)
Links About Mike From Around the Web
- Mike’s Facebook page – not active since college, but a nice snapshot of that period)
- Mike’s LinkedIn profile – showcasing a professional career in digital marketing
- Guest posts on No Sidebar, Becoming Minimalist, Simplify Magazine, and Rich in What Matters.
- Mike’s Muck Rack profile – highlighting some of my work from around the web, primarily at Epoch Times