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 are bed-ridden by illness; I have been bath-ridden, because, sometimes, if I time it right and get the water temperature right, a bath is the […]
This Visit Was Brought to You by the Letter T
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, we never spent time together like we used to. Finn and I used to sit at the table together to eat meals, ride in the […]
Christmas Stories
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 my dad’s parent’s house where we’d eat and exchange presents with his brother’s family—the Coxes. That was a mixed bag, with neither of my parents […]
‘Twas the Night before Christmas, and all through the Apartment Building …
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 neighbors whose sticky, fake blood signs stained their front door. They can’t escape from Halloween even now. Yes, we’re still in the apartment. No, we […]
Morgan Freeman Led Us to Our Christmas Tree
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 marsh before we bought our Christmas tree, but where would be the fun of that? Snowy Day Trip Last week, Tracy planned for us a […]
Sleepy Snowshoeing
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 better at this life business each trip around sun. Whatever. No matter how I try to write that I sound like a Hallmark card in […]
Apartment Life in the Winter
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 […]
