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Feeding a Family During a Kitchen Remodel

Feeding a Family During a Kitchen Remodel

As I write this post, there are cabinets being installed in the kitchen below me. Thank God. You know I love going out to eat, but I may turn into a Bruegger’s cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese (and, let’s be honest…hot chocolate) if I have to call that lunch […]

Speaking of how to set up a proper photograph... Here's how NOT to do it. But I can never pass up a corgi smile.

Artwork Looking for A New Home

I don’t “get” art. We know this. But I love photography. I don’t “get” it either… I am learning more and more about proper composition of a photograph (thank you, Lisa!), but sometimes it just catches my eye because it’s pretty. Enter last year’s Lakefront Festival of the Arts silent […]

Where is your kitchen sink department? I could really use on of those...

The First Four Days

I could sum up this weekend with “my lamb, do we have a lot of stuff”, but that’s no fun, is it? Why say something in one sentence if you can say it in 105. Thursday Morning: The movers are to arrive between 8 and 8:30, so Randy and I […]

Last Night In 94th Street

It is the last day in my house. Not the house I grew up in. Not a house my parents retired in. My house. The house I bought using every questionable mortgage practice available in 2005. The house that only has my name on the deed and loan. My house. […]

On A Stormy Sea of Moving Emotion

On A Stormy Sea of Moving Emotion

I’ve known this was coming for months. OK, maybe we only picked a moving date two weeks ago, but I knew it was bound to happen sometime in the near future. (Dear God, I don’t think I could have taken two houses much longer…) But the bags are not packed. […]