Once again, I’ve been having trouble writing. Between the hurricane and the election, this has been a challenging several months. Every year, the folks at Merriam-Webster choose a Word of the Year. Can you guess the word for 2024? It was “Polarization.” Given the state of our nation, that’s not surprising. But it is disturbing. […]
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Dear Friends, We are safe. Thank you, everyone, for your texts and emails and phone calls. We are buoyed by your support and concern. We’ve tried to respond, but our communication with the outside world has been minimal. We have no internet, with no ETA. (I’m sending this from the parking lot of our internet […]
Hey! It’s been a while. I hope all of you are doing well. I didn’t mean to take a such a long hiatus from blogging. But after more than 10 years of blogging and 375 posts, I apparently needed a break. More than anything, I needed time to settle in to our new life in […]
We returned to Apalachicola in mid-March, just long enough to pack up our belongings from our storage unit before heading north on our new life adventure. Driving along the Gulf on Highway 98, we felt the tug to make the turn onto Magnolia Bluff, toward our former sweet home on the bay. That’s when the […]
We pulled out of the driveway last Friday, after a nostalgic final wander through the house that my parents built 40 years ago and that has been our home for the past three years. For a few minutes, I was immersed in a cascade of memories, made more poignant by the knowledge that we will […]
Happy New Year, dear friends! I was reading over my New Year’s post from last January (The Sacred and the Profane), and I can’t come up with anything better than that. Mary Oliver’s beautiful poem about mindfulness and the hilarious sentiment about bucket lists holds just as true this year as last. And honestly, I […]
The past three weeks have been grueling. Preparing a house for sale is never fun, but it’s especially terrible when it comes on the heels of a four-and-a-half month road trip. As I mentioned in our last post, we were not anticipating selling the house right now. We barely got the trailer unloaded before we […]
I‘m curled up on our comfortable sofa with my coffee, enjoying our expansive view of the bay, listening to the cheerful song of the Carolina Wren and the wind as it rustles through the palmettos. This has been my morning routine for almost three years now, ever since we found ourselves unexpectedly transplanted to the […]
As of last Sunday, we’re on the road again. We’re heading north to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, which is pretty much all-new territory for us. As always, it required supreme effort to break free of the gravitational pull of home. It doesn’t matter how much planning we do, or how far ahead we start the […]
We are leaving home in less than two weeks for a four-and-a-half month trip. I’d planned to finish blogging about our 2019 travels before embarking on this new adventure. And I was getting close. But I can’t post a travel blog right now. I’m too sad, and I’m too angry about the latest in what […]
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