Where’s Jeff? This is a question I hear/read more often than I thought I might. For something, pardon, someONE who came onto the scene as...

We live in a fast-paced world. That doesn’t mean we have to bow to the pressure to keep up. A while back I wrote a post called Relax and...

Some of the best lessons are learned through failure. The next thing to do, after inevitably beating ourselves over the head, is to pass...

Over the years, my mindset regarding homes has evolved from a naive, fairytale “home is where the heart is” orientation … to more of a...

An important element of being professionally moved is the rapport you establish with the movers. After all, those are the people who will...

A friend of mine recently told me that I should do a post about moving, offering tidbits and tips about the process. You see, I am a...

A short while back, I caught a glimpse of my reflection while frantically scrubbing water spots off the sinks to ready the house for yet...

Not really boring, per se. Maybe routine is the word I am looking for. Hmm, now that I think of it getting a wicked sunburn while hanging...

…and taking my skeletons with me When I took the first step to strike out on my own, the idea was to get away … to shed hand picked...

I grew up a line walker. I followed the rules and tried to do the things I was supposed to do when I was supposed to do them. I colored...

Recently, I have been thinking about that magical defense spell that we learned to use as children. No… not “I’m rubber and you’re glue”…...

We have all had at least one of those Christmases… We are surrounded…nay bombarded… by images of perfect holiday bliss and cheer, but in...

As I knelt over the sunken bathtub in our new home this Thanksgiving morning, washing dishes while the espresso machine above me pumped...

This is not technically a part of my “move series”, however, because the move put this more into perspective in our lives…I am including...

Initially, I thought it would be ideal to write about the move as it was happening… ‘Get all those feelings down while they are raw’, I...

When I was growing up, I used to be jealous of the kids around me who had lived in one place their whole lives and whose families had...

We have lived in our present location for almost nine years. That, my friends, is the longest we have lived anywhere as a family…and even...