Category Archive: New Beginnings

Spring.

It has been a very very long time since I sat down to write anything. It’s been a hectic time for us —good exciting stuff like travel, buying a house and renovating it,… Continue reading

Some Life Lessons at 5840

  1.)    Middle aged people are not the only ones who feel the altitude. Dogs, too, have to get acclimated and are great to bring along on mountain hikes as they provide… Continue reading

All is Well.

We are here. Life is good. It has been a busy week. We arrived last Saturday and unpacked our zillion boxes, settled our rooms, crammed summer reading, finished school forms, attended orientation at… Continue reading

Mellow in Montana

We’ve enjoyed two days of rest from our travels-decompressing at a friends’ ranch in Montana. They took us up into the hills to see an old “buffalo jump;” an area where Native Americans … Continue reading

Westward Ho

Sitting on a rooftop watching shooting stars in Rapid City, South Dakota. All is well. We’ve watched the landscape change from endless miles of  corn and wind towers to grasslands to Badlands and… Continue reading

Raw Material

Packing up. A strange experience, particularly when you are leaving for a year. You get the benefits of a move: excitement, farewell drinks, well wishes without the sadness of real goodbyes. One of… Continue reading