We are relocating again, from one Residence Inn to another Residence Inn located closer to our new home. Turns out the one hour and fifteen minute commute isn’t ideal with toddlers, a baby and two dogs. It’s so tricky, in fact, that we are giving up a two-bedroom hotel suite for a studio just to avoid the …
“You have an unnaturally high tolerance for this stuff,” C told me as we drank wine on our patio. The kids were in bed and we were enjoying one of our last evenings in our backyard. We’d sold the house, quickly, and bought another even quicker. We were moving across town to become a “Bates …
We move in two days. We bought an adorable little house across town, dangerously close to family and good friends. It is a good move. It is an exciting move. But it is the very first move I have coordinated completely by myself for four people. I thought I had things under control, but then I spent twenty …
I’ve had, well, several career changes throughout my life. I waited tables in an assisted living home in high school then bartended in college. After graduating with a Bachelor’s in History, I became an insurance adjustor. Then I went back to school to become a failed hairdresser – an experience which deserves a podcast and …
My life revolves around the handful of times we visit Nantucket each year. The humid, preppy little island is my happy place. This past weekend we went for the Daffodil Festival and stayed in a distractingly fabulous bed and breakfast run cottage. The two-room wooden shingled cottage’s decor was confusing. It was as if someone had said, “let’s throw everything at the wall and …
ghosts in the burbs 