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 […]
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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 […]
This Old (Weird) House
When we were trying to find a house to buy, we looked at many beautifully restored old houses, and we even got it in our heads that that was exactly what we wanted. A perfect house. What we ended up buying is a bit of a Frankenhouse (not an exactly fair reference, but it’s a […]
Confessions from a Sticks and Bricks
That last post I wrote was pretty lame: all the what and whens and none of the feelings behind our current transition. Here goes my attempt at getting back to my regular, emotionally driven writing style. Gee, aren’t you excited? You Can Now Buy Our Airstream I found it listed on Copart, and what a […]
“Adjust”? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That
Prepping for house closing, planning for renovations, buying stuff for the apartment and the house … egads this pretzel is making me thirsty.
This Porch Is Your Porch, This Porch Is My Porch (updates on the Airstream, the apartment, the house)
The Airstream, First It is now parked behind a locked, electrified fence in an auction lot. We left the keys inside as well as Tracy’s Airstream baseball cap. What should have been an end-of-life farewell was a torturous journey. There was so much miscommunication between the insurance company’s tow truck contractors and subcontracts that, after […]
On the Brink of Our Next Adventure
It’s been a grueling couple of months, for me at least. Tracy, ever the stoic, has remained calm, while my psyche has run a marathon over mountains and through swamps, chasing house after house. Behind us the whole way has been the charge of handing the Airstream to our insurance company. If the house hunt […]
