I’m always dropping my phone or leaving my keys somewhere. And I can’t stand having them in my pocket…sometimes I don’t have pockets. So, it dawned on me that an apron was the perfect solution. This one is my second one because Miika told me she was tired of seeing my green one. In it’s [...]

Last Tuesday we left our keys on the kitchen counter and said goodbye to a very, very, very fine house. Even though the market stinks and price went low, I’m glad that the new homeowners “get” what we did for the past 8 years and will continue on with the restoration. So many memories came [...]

Lately I’m imagining a huge economic pendulum swinging back in forth through time between prosperity and poverty. I have vague recollections of long gas lines when I was a kid in the 70s and hearing the words recession. My mom and I lived on the fringes and we’d visit friends who were “living on the [...]

It’s hard to believe that this is what we’ll call home in a few weeks! But we will… To recap, we’re going from a 5 bedroom, 3 bath house to a 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Two garage sales and 10 van loads full of stuff donated to thrift stores, and we still have a [...]