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We’ve lived in our current house for over a year now. Sometimes it still seems foreign to me … as if I am living in someone else’s home. It all looks familiar to me now. But every so often, it also looks wrong. It’s a strange feeling. Like I am totally out of place. WeContinue reading “Home”

The Thing about Moving

The thing about moving is that it’s hard. It’s physically hard. It’s emotionally hard. It’s just hard. You put all this effort into it. You find a house to buy. You make an offer. The offer is accepted. And that was all hard enough. But then you discover the hard parts have only just begun.Continue reading “The Thing about Moving”

Why Wyoming?

Late at night when I should be sleeping but instead I am obsessing about all the things there are yet to do, I sometimes suffer a fit of uncertainty and I ask myself “Why Wyoming?” Because, in the dead of the night, I can’t seem to answer that question with any kind of logic orContinue reading “Why Wyoming?”

Inspirationless

I am too tired these days to find inspiration. I worry that I have lost it permanently. But then I will be sitting and typing an email to our escrow officer for the sale of our home and I will realize that I’m just tired. The words are all still in there. Otherwise, why didContinue reading “Inspirationless”

Moving a household … especially one that has taken 27 years to establish and entrench so very completely in the place where it is … is no easy feat. I hate moving. Pure and simple. It’s why we haven’t done it much. Bernd hates moving too. The house we have lived in all these yearsContinue reading “Moving”

Buying a House

We are twenty-seven years older now than when we last looked for and bought a house. In some ways, we are older and wiser. In other ways we are simply older and tired-er. Several things came together all at once to make buying a new house and moving right now more appealing. Not that movingContinue reading “Buying a House”

Crazy is as Crazy Does

First I am going to tell you never to do this. Then I am going to tell you that we decided to do it again. We got up Tuesday (October 27) at midnight and hit the road at 2:00 a.m. Our goal was to get from Dewey, AZ to Riverton, WY before dark. That didn’tContinue reading “Crazy is as Crazy Does”