We were in the throes of change: selling a house, moving in with my parents, buying a house, fixing up a house, moving into that house, giving up on fixing up the house, deciding to tear the whole thing down instead, moving back in with my parents, building a house. In the midst of these prolonged real estate dramas, we suffered the strain of pulling up roots in a place that we loved and trying to sink roots down into another that we barely knew. I lost my job. My husband started a business. Meanwhile, we were also trying to…
January 24, 2011 – 10:42 am
A few things I learned this week while cross-blogging with Margaret at awaytogarden.com: It’s really fun to have a buddy. Skype is almost as good as being there. It’s easy to embed a video into the middle of a blog post (thank you, Margaret, for your continued tutelage!). We are each blessed to have such committed, curious, passionate readers. A book give-away is a pretty wonderful way to get everyone talking — to get you all introduced to each of us, to one another, and to the books that have made a difference in all our lives. (I hope that…
