moving
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Introducing: Home Number Three
If you’ve been reading for a while, you may know that my little family is now living in house number three. The first was a little mid-century ranch in the the Westbury subdivision of Houston, Texas. It was a foreclosure and we did quite a bit of renovations prior to moving in. We lived there… Continue reading
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Tour Our Second Home, On the Market Before and After
I loved this house well and I had so much fun making it ours, adding my personal style everywhere. The following pictures don’t fully reflect my personal style, because these were the listing photos for the house just prior to us buying it (sight unseen!) and after my friend Ky and I pulled up our… Continue reading
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We’re Moving…Again!
I didn’t expect to write this post this soon, or at this stage in our lives. I admit, I knew this wasn’t our forever home. When we sold our first home in Texas and moved to Connecticut, I became a bit more realistic about my expectations about how long I would live in one place.… Continue reading
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A cross-country move, a year + later
Last night, as Mark and I lain next to each other, he asked, “Do you wish you still lived in Houston? You seem like you had so much fun there.” After yesterday’s poem to my hometown, you may be wondering the same. Quite simply, the answer is no. Do I miss it? Boy, do I. But given… Continue reading
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7 Things I should have known before I moved across the country
Last week, I celebrated six months of living 1,690 miles from what I’ve known most of my life. I use the term celebrated loosely. What really happened was that I started crying over something completely minuscule right after my son got on the bus, and minor setbacks throughout the day had me crying all.day.long.. Around 1… Continue reading
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Are we Yankees yet?
Fun fact: Yankee Doodle Dandy is the state song of Connecticut. Come Thursday, we’ll have been residents of coastal Connecticut for four months. A third of a year! The time has gone by a lot more quickly than I thought it would, but I guess that’s how things usually go. We’ve settled in pretty well,… Continue reading
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This February, I’m getting out of my funk
Man, what I year this last one was. I know, I know. This started out sounding like the post that everyone makes during the first week of January. I’m okay with that. Last March, after going through the first months of 2015 with fervor, focus, and a plan for the goals I wanted to achieve,… Continue reading
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All moved in!
We’re finally moved into our Connecticut home. It’s been a long time coming, as we first learned about the possibility of moving to the Tri-State area back in March. We closed on Tuesday, the movers came and dropped all of the boxes off in the appropriate rooms on Wednesday, and here I am Thursday with the… Continue reading
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Our First Home: Before and After
It’s happening! We accepted an offer on our home and as of today, we are under contract. Knowing that in less than a month’s time, we’ll be saying goodbye to our old home and hello to New England, I’m feeling all of the nostalgic feels. We bought this house in late 2011 as our first place as a… Continue reading
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Our Tri-State Trip: Looking into New York City & its Suburbs
As the move became more likely and my online searching was nearly incessant, we booked a flight for us to see the areas I had been researching firsthand. We decided to bring along our seven year old, to do a trial run of parenting around the city. Initial thoughts on our move When the possibility… Continue reading
About Me
I’m an artist. Sometimes I paint impressionist townscapes in oils, other times I sketch out what I’d rather be painting in pencil. I design intentional environments in my home, and sometimes I get around to projects that the design consists of. I flip thrifted clothes, or I let ideas pile up like used fabrics overflowing from a box in my basement. This is a metaphor, but also a fact.
I’m a writer. Sometimes that means bad poetry. I often meander in my prose, as I find it hard not to mention every detail, what something reminds me of, and all of the background information you could never want.
I’m an explorer. Sometimes I explore the great outdoors, or other countries. Other times, my nose deep in a book, I’m exploring the universal human experience, nature science, ancient wisdom and impacts of colonialism. Often, I’m exploring my own inner experience through train-of-thought journaling.
I’m restless in my curiosity and consistently creative. To an outsider, it’s clear that leading a creative life involves output: paintings, outfits, decor, a garden. The creative knows that this output requires a frequent stream and synthesis of that input. This blog is the space I use to organize and sort my meandering thoughts and pile of ideas.