Man, am I having a difficult winter. December was, truthfully, the worst month I’ve ever experienced, and that’s saying something. This extreme restless legs syndrome makes living hell. Some people are bed-ridden by illness; I have been bath-ridden, because, if I time it right and get the water temperature right, a bath is the only […]
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‘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 […]
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 […]
A Hail-Mary Remodeling Contractor for the Score
Shortly after we bought a house in October, we began our hunt for a contractor to save us from what might have been a mistaken purchase. See, we’d had less than two hours with that house before we had to make an offer or not, and the summer real estate season was shriveling up. We’d […]
What I Found – Second Peek
A warm and smart writer I follow, Kari, keeps her blog called A Grace Full Life stocked with lists, which, if you don’t read her, seems like a shortcut to thinking. I hate those kinds of lists. Hers are amazing, though. Personal and beautiful and inspiring. One of them is just photos, and she calls […]
My Twilight Zone 28 Hours
Today is Thursday. My Tuesday and Wednesday were like a sandwich, with bread made of trivia games and filling made of thick-cut memories, gratefulness, high-end irritation, and a slather of strangeness. It tasted good, though. Tuesday 2:00 Tracy and I show up at the house with an inflatable mattress and linens, and I proceed to […]
Add “What if” to Our House Remodel
Here’s the sitch. That leaves us with a window to get work done in. But, Our search has turned up additional big questions: We have interviewed (aka walked around the house and talked with for hours on end) two electricians and four general contractors. That’s all been disheartening, to say the least. One guy smelled […]
Musings Four Months after Calling It Quits
On the non-linear nature of time, in my life, at least.
Banjo’s Resistance
You guys have asked so nicely how Banjo is adapting, and she really is doing fine. Don’t ask her though; according to her the world is just not right. And, she has her subtle (and heck, overt) ways of letting us know that we’re not in the Airstream, we’re not spending most of our time […]
