Childhood Christmases I grew up in a two-story house in the Virginia woods with my mom and dad and sister and always a good Christmas. Christmas Eve we’d drive to my dad’s parent’s house where we’d eat and exchange presents with his brother’s family—the Coxes. That was a mixed bag, with neither of my parents […]
Month: December 2025
‘Twas the Night before Christmas, and all through the Apartment Building …
Let me get this out of the way: it’s been a rough December, for so many people, and for us, too. Although I bet no one’s as bummed as these neighbors whose sticky, fake blood signs stained their front door. They can’t escape from Halloween even now. Yes, we’re still in the apartment. No, we […]
Morgan Freeman Led Us to Our Christmas Tree
If you think that’s click bait, I could have said closer to the truth that Morgan Freeman—as the voice of a pre-historic spearhead—led us through the visitor’s center for a marsh before we bought our Christmas tree, but where would be the fun of that? Snowy Day Trip Last week, Tracy planned for us a […]
Sleepy Snowshoeing
My snowshoeing experiences have mirrored my mood lately: lots of (literal and figurative) ups and downs, but I keep pushing on, knowing I’m learning each time I go out, getting better at this life business each trip around sun. Whatever. No matter how I try to write that I sound like a Hallmark card in […]
Apartment Life in the Winter
My guilty little secret: I love this apartment. Our name for the modem in the Airstream was Firefly, the name we gave the trailer that we kinda knew from the beginning wouldn’t stick but we chose it, anyway, because man do we love that show. For the apartment we had to pick a modem name […]
