What Is This Blog About?

What Is This Blog About?

Honestly, I think the answer to that question keeps shifting. When I started this blog almost six years ago, its main purpose was to share my home renovation projects. Then as the renovation work settled, it became more of an outlet for my writing, occasionally fiction or poetry, but most often non-fiction essay or personal [...]

What about Home Makes It a Wonderful Life? George Bailey and Home Ownership

What about Home Makes It a Wonderful Life? George Bailey and Home Ownership

There are some movies that are just too good for this world. This winter, I rewatched It's a Wonderful Life with my sister (and her dog). We narrowly missed watching a colorized version. Yikes! (If you're wondering why I'm writing about a Christmas movie so far out of season, read to the end). It had [...]

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Home is the nicest word there is. — Laura Ingalls Wilder It was a long process, but this week I moved into my own place. Now that some of the whirlwind of the process is past, I want to slow down a bit to write and reflect about some of the things that I've learned [...]