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Unfortunately, neither front is nationally; that I feel more and more pessimistic about that every day. The two fronts I’m talking about are in my small, personal domain. Cautiously Optimistic… Read more: Cautious Optimism on Two Fronts

Here’s another travel retrospective post in my Grateful and Proud series. The second fall we were on the road, which was 2021, we spent a mere week in Death Valley.… Read more: Grateful and Proud: Death Valley

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… Read more: Finally, Something to Look Forward to That Isn’t Surgery

T for Togetherness Ever since Finn went away to college and I went away to my Airstream adventures, we would get together a couple of times a year, yes. But,… Read more: This Visit Was Brought to You by the Letter T

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… Read more: Christmas Stories

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… Read more: ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, and all through the Apartment Building …

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… Read more: Morgan Freeman Led Us to Our Christmas Tree

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… Read more: Sleepy Snowshoeing

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… Read more: Apartment Life in the Winter

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… Read more: A Hail-Mary Remodeling Contractor for the Score

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… Read more: Not What It Feels Like to Have Severe RLS

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… Read more: Grateful and Proud: South of Tucson in Arizona

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… Read more: What I Found – Second Peek

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… Read more: My Twilight Zone 28 Hours

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,… Read more: Grateful and Proud: The Everglades

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… Read more: Grateful and Proud: Writing-on-Stone

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… Read more: Add “What if” to Our House Remodel

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… Read more: Is the Shadow Only a Small and Passing Thing?

On the non-linear nature of time, in my life, at least.

First off, Finn and I have released the third episode of our podcast, How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? that we made when I visited him a… Read more: Leafy Daytrip and New Podcast Episode