There are several topics I should be covering in this post, updates to keep you in the loop of Tracy’s and my lives, and Banjo’s, too. Updates You’re Not Getting How Tracy’s building the fence with concrete and posts and pickets, and how I’m keeping the neighbors satisfied with more tomatoes than two blocks of […]
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An Imperfect Life Is Made from a String of Perfect Moments
Last week’s blog entry about regrets is valid. As is the pretty-much opposite take, that being aware of tiny moments of perfection allows you to make a necklace, of pearls and gems and found shark teeth and tiny shells, that makes life as beautiful as I am wistful. Problem is that it’s hard to remember […]
Maybe If I Consider the Maybes
A year ago, we were still in the trailer, in the campground in Wisconsin, looking for a house to buy. Maybe, if we’d spent less time house-hunting, feeling like the summer was a ticking time bomb, and more time finding a sustainable apartment (or rental house) that wouldn’t suck our souls from our very throats […]
Musings Four Months after Calling It Quits
On the non-linear nature of time, in my life, at least.
Rolling with the Punches Here
I’ve been thinking about resiliency: how as a skill, a character trait, a practice, it helps you lead a satisfying life no matter what changes come your way. You plan for one thing, something else happens, and you change your plan to accommodate. You roll with the punches. This sounds so sensible, right? And I’ve “rolled with […]
Choosing a Normal Life after Living an Extraordinary One
We’ve had a handful of big changes here in the Tracy and Shelly (and Banjo) world, and they’re happening in a mixed-up, muddled-up order. I’ll tackle them one topic per post. Topic #1: I decided I’m done with life on the road. I wrestled with this decision for ages, thinking I wanted to settle down, […]
When Housekeeping Is the Barrier-Breaker
There’s a beautifully written book entitled, Housekeeping, in which author Marilynne Robinson’s radical hero, a vagrant, estranged aunt, moves into a rural house to be the guardian of two teen girls. What could be seen as her neglect of housekeeping allows nature to slowly take over the old house. What’s really happening is a breakdown of the […]
Lifestyles of the Rebellious and Unattached
I think about this a lot. What traits do we full-timers share? I think I’ve finally nailed it: we share a lack of strong ties. Call it non-attachment, if you’d like. Either willingly or unwillingly, we no longer have connections to nearby family, to a special home, to long-standing family traditions, strong friendship circles, a […]
My Least-favorite Part of Full-timing
Today’s our final day at Lake Ray Roberts, north of Dallas/Ft Worth. We’ve spent a whopping ten days here, same site as every year, so we can visit Karen on our way to a week of annual “life garbage” (thanks, Melanie) near Houston. Man have I enjoyed these sunsets over the lake; we’ve watched them […]
The Absolute Freaking Weirdness of this Lifestyle
This hometown week on the Friends and Family Tour ‘24 has been a honking-big, tangled-up knot of red-hot emotions. It’s not just been about seeing people I haven’t seen in years. It’s been about being struck by aging (and in a flash of recognition that really should be hidden). It’s been about cramming what we’ve […]
