Storybook House Update - Old Things for a New Life
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
It's been almost a year since I've been in my Storybook House. Transplanted from metro NY to Indianapolis, I'm still adapting. I've filled my new home with old things. Things that are worn and beat-up a bit, like me. But aren't things with history...
Love the One You're With
posted over 3 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
No, I'm not quoting the hippie song by Steven Stills which encouraged the swinging free love of that era. I'm talking, love the one you're with...the one you're married to.
I talked to two relatives this weekend. Both of them said they wouldn't ...
I talked to two relatives this weekend. Both of them said they wouldn't ...
Wrapping It Up-Wacky Style
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
The Santa Clause was good to me even though the Grinch almost Stole Christmas. No, it wasn't a White Christmas in Indianapolis, but Pignoli starred as Prancer with red antlers and jingle bell collar. We sang many A Christmas Carol at our candlelig...
Why Indy?
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
People here ask that all the time. I tell them I've just moved here from New York, and they say, "What brought you HERE?" Indy suffers from a deep inferiority complex. We came close to hosting the Super Bowl, so we should be proud. That must mean ...
Storybook House
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
I've left my old life in New York and walked into a 'Storybook'. It seems as if I'm living in a dollhouse. In fact, I constructed a dollhouse years ago, worked on it slowly over the years. Now I've found the amazingly similar life-sized equivalent...
Moving On
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
He came to the house to give her a moving estimate. "OK, where would you like to start?" he asks.
"We'll work from the front to the back of the house, and then down and up," she replies as she directs him to her dining-room-that-never-was. That ...
"We'll work from the front to the back of the house, and then down and up," she replies as she directs him to her dining-room-that-never-was. That ...
Valentine's Day
posted over 5 years ago, updated 16 minutes later | 4 comments
I'm up late eating Dove chocolate hearts and reading what's on the foil inside. It says "express what's in your heart". OK, I will. It also says, "laugh until your heart overflows". I do.
I think I've said those words before. "I do". But I'm sti...
I think I've said those words before. "I do". But I'm sti...
Purge
posted over 5 years ago | 3 comments
It's going to be a painful process but I've begun to purge. Starting with the attic, rummaging through Christmas stuff today. What to keep, what to chuck. Keepers: A cut-out nativity scene my daughter made in Sunday School when she was 5, paper pl...
New Year=New Life
posted over 5 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 2 comments
It's almost time to count down. A new year is beginning and so is my new life. I'll be leaving NY sometime this year and I'm excited. Starting over will be an exciting adventure and I've never felt so free, so willing to take a risk and so ready t...
I Used to Love Christmas
posted over 5 years ago, updated 6 days later | 6 comments
I used to love Christmas. Now I hate it and I just want it to be over. I think it's just a pagan ritual anyway. There doesn't seem to be much evidence of Christ-like people around, and we're supposed to be celebrating Christ. Trying to get into a ...
