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 […]
Not What It Feels Like to Have Severe RLS
It is the day after Thanksgiving, and I should be posting about all the things I’m grateful for. I did have a wonderful Thanksgiving with a lot to be grateful for. I also had an entirely sleepless night, so it’s time for this post, instead. I’ve started writing this a bunch of times and […]
Grateful and Proud: South of Tucson in Arizona
I’m still finding my footing with this recap series of posts about where we’ve been in the Airstream: which areas to cover, how much to repost and how much to summarize, whether to bother editing photos, that kind of thing. After the Everglades and southern Alberta, I figure it’s time for some desert, but there […]
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 […]
Grateful and Proud: The Everglades
I was going to save this location for a later date, but we’re having our first cold snap here in Wisconsin and I miss the warmth already. The Everglades, however, is not about warmth. It’s a vanishing, unique ecosystem that I’m lucky to have visited multiple times over the first winter we were on the […]
Grateful and Proud: Writing-on-Stone
Here starts a new series in the blog (yes, I know, yet another, but I hope this one will stick). I’m calling it Grateful and Proud because it’s a retrospective of special places I’ve been in the Airstream, but not an “I’m so sad that I gave that up” but a “Yay look what I […]
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 […]
Is the Shadow Only a Small and Passing Thing?
I woke up this morning with Tolkien in my ears, specifically my favorite recorded books version of The Lord of the Rings by Rob Inglis. If you enjoy listening to books and don’t know this version, I recommend him strongly. Inglis beautifully voices the many peoples of Middle Earth, singing deep as a dwarf, high […]
