This post is probably not about what you think it is. No, I haven’t gone hiking across a suspension bridge 1000 feet above the stream. No, I haven’t gone barreling down a mountainside in a luge. And no, I haven’t
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

This post is probably not about what you think it is. No, I haven’t gone hiking across a suspension bridge 1000 feet above the stream. No, I haven’t gone barreling down a mountainside in a luge. And no, I haven’t
Every few years, I buy a new pot and a new bag of potting mix, and I spend an afternoon re-potting a Boston fern that I've been moving all over the West Coast with me for almost forty years. Yesterday
Four years ago this week, my birthday week celebrations were of a completely different nature than they are this year. My house had foreclosed and I was moving my remaining belongings out, placing them in a small storage unit. Earlier
I first met Louise 10 years ago. She was one half of the cutest duo you could ever have imagined – two little black and white kittens, almost identical sisters, both of them sitting in a single too-small crate, waiting
So my little 19-foot tortoise shell has been listed on craigslist and is garnering gobs of attention. I wonder who will be the Perfect Person to own it next? I bought this trailer a year or so after my house
Ok, so the reality of living in a little ten foot trailer is beginning to hit home. Funny thing is, I’ve been living in a 19-footer for almost three years now and going from 3-bedrooms/2-baths to a 19-foot travel trailer
The Last Five Years: It’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It! 5. Five years ago, my dad died. He’d been in the hospital three weeks. I didn’t know he was in the hospital. My mother, brother, and sister didn’t