Friends! Welcome back to another month of Share Four Somethings, hosted by my friend and fellow podcaster Heather Gerwing. I confess, I’ve struggled a bit with the two new categories for 2022, Something Braved and Something Achieved, but I think I’m beginning to settle into them. At first, they felt like big categories–like whatever I…
Summer vacation. They’re two of the most wonderful words in the English language, calling to mind the sound of waves crashing on the beach, visions of bright blue skies studded with fleecy clouds, the feeling of sun-warmed shoulders, the taste of ice cream and lemonade. Summer vacation. We all love it. We all long for it….
As I continue to wrestle with the concept of home, coming to a place where I realize home isn’t so much about place as it is about people, I keep coming back to the niggling feeling that there’s an additional piece. That while home is absolutely where my people are, there’s yet another layer to…
Several months ago, I wrote about being homesick for the Midwest, about how the transient life I’m leading has gotten under my skin now that I’m down South. Then, I read something my friend Seth wrote about the meaning of home, citing the lengthy list of places he and his wife Amber have lived since they…
It’s October. October is my favorite month. I spent 34 years of my life in Michigan, which has gorgeous Octobers. Gorgeous autumns, that is. The same way Lorelai Gilmore can smell snow coming, I can smell autumn. You wake up one morning, and it’s there—a change in the air. You can feel it on your skin….
So. I know in said in a post earlier this week that you don’t need to refurbish your house in order to have guests. And that’s true. I stand by what I said. On the other hand, if you want to do a little sprucing, and you don’t feel overwhelmed by the prospect, then that’s…