For weeks and months I lay in bed at night trying to imagine what Life would be like in Cali (oh! see how I’ve picked up the local lingo?!) I pictured hours at my writing desk alone—David working long days at his first new job apart from each other in 25 years—with a mixture […]
Tag: moving
Constant Clutter, OY!
Moving is all about finding new places to put your sh*t. And those places might not yet exist if you sell most of your furniture but not all the contents thereof. Am I really so locked into “everything in it’s place”-Donna Reed-middle-aged-menopausal-rigidity??? Instead of a panic attack that spurred me to solutions, the […]
Land HO! Palo Alto!
This very morning, Wed 7/29, we sighted port and let down anchor. (Alright, quite the tortured metaphor, sorry! Especially to these drought-stricken Californians…) It’s 11:15pm here, I’ve now settled in after 12 straight hours of way-too-old-for-this unpacking in unusually HOT weather. Hey, wait a minute! Isn’t this supposed to be 70’s all year round?? Thank […]