The day began with a request for pancakes and after breakfast we spent the rest of our morning outside. Greg and I moved our old grill to the road so that hopefully someone interested in a free barbecue will take it (edit: someone did!) and then O and I played in the sandbox, on the trampoline, and on the swings…
Below is a sample of what you can expect from my Substack newsletter, which I wrote about here. The following post is from the September 7, 2023 issue titled ‘On The Verge’. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe! A ‘better-in-hindsight’ t.v. show and the summer that won’t end… Last year the crisp autumnal weather arrived promptly on September first…
Yesterday was a bit rough. I didn’t get very good sleep the night before and had a morning dental appointment to have two fillings done. Oh Monday, you shouldn’t have. After my appointment, while still numb from the novocaine and blissfully unaware of how I would feel when it wore off, I stopped into the second-hand store that neighbors my…
I usually await the arrival of autumn with impatient anticipation, but once it arrives forget just how much I begged it to be here sooner. This year, however, has felt different. I didn’t wish away the summer days longing for the fall and most surprisingly to me, when fall arrived at last, I felt the loss of summer – something…
I have been devotedly reading a few choice blogs for going on twenty years. Twenty years! For half of my lifetime I have consistently checked in on the lives of a handful of strangers and followed along as they got married, had children, lost parents, took vacations, fought illness and more. I enjoy a well-written and thoughtful glimpse into another…
In September I wrote about wanting to slow my roll and by November I was unemployed. That’ll do it, I guess. This change was not by choice or without heartache, but as I’m learning, sometimes things happen that we don’t want and yet when they do we find that it isn’t exactly a bad thing. I spent October preparing myself…
(Original Post Date: September 12) When we moved from Los Angeles to Upstate New York almost every single thing about life as we knew it changed. Different house, state, time zone, and climate. Not only that, but our jobs changed, we bought a new car, and moved in with furniture and furnishings that were new to us. At times it…
(Original Post Date: September 1) We moved to New York in December of last year and this will be the first September in our new home. A few weeks ago, during some of the hot and humid days we had been warned to expect, I joked that if the weather didn’t shift immediately on September first I would be angry.…
We moved into our new house four weeks ago and it feels like it has been longer than four weeks and at the same time much less. Days here are slow, albeit full, and the change in pace has not been easy for me. I don’t have a lot of patience with transitions and right now every area of my…
Despite all of the madness of 2021, we had a very big and great year. In January of last year our daughter was born and in December we moved across the country and into our first home. We have been in our house a little over two weeks and with each passing day it feels more like home. The only…