Still Moving….. slowly

Major life changes reveal a lot. Packing and moving a household shows I save more stuff than I realize.  I can't blame it all on Doug.... but I will try, of course. So far I've packed the easy stuff.  Actually, not easy, just accessible.  It's stuff I know must go - - like a cabinet full of china, bedding and …

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Do you read every page of every book you start?

Honestly, I don't.  And I feel guilty about that. So I'm thinking our upcoming move will be a good opportunity to purge my book collection.  I need to get rid of some guilt. I'm also thinking it might not be a bad thing to not complete a book.  Perhaps I learned what I needed to learn from the pages …

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Moving in Circles

Under normal circumstances, whatever those are, moving to a new location is very stressful.  I imagine.  It's been 22 years since the last time I moved so I'm a little rusty on the whole thing. But I can tell you that moving, leaving a job, cutting your income by 2/3rds, leaving loved ones behind - …

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Mom, Where am I?

So after you've announced you're leaving your job...what next?? First you work really hard to get to that last day.  You anticipate and plan for the new, different, good and strange things looming in your future.  But at the moment, I find life a little odd. I've discovered that when you step out of the predictable status …

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