Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion Posted By Lorena Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I...
What did I do THIS time?! Posted By Lorena I'm posting about this because I'm pretty wise to phishing scams, and y'all, this one took me a minute. Last night at dinner with some...
Rituals Posted By Lorena What ordinary rituals did your family have? Perhaps you always got ice cream after baseball games, or went fishing on Sundays. Do you feel like...
Hey, baby, what’s your style? Posted By Lorena One thing you've all been watching me do for the last year is make my house my own - mine, instead of ours. I didn't...
Home and Garden Before and middle (that’s right; not “after”) Posted By Lorena And now, in one place, a few before-and-afters. Well, honestly, not even a before and after, more like a before and middle, because we're not... Read More
Home and Garden When last we left our intrepid home improvement heroine… Posted By Lorena Wait, where DID we leave off? Did I even ever start blogging about all the home shit that needed to be fixed??? For a guy... Read More
Home and Garden Good; I can finally stop worrying about that tree Posted By Lorena Ever since we moved in, there's been a large turkey oak tree looming over one corner of my studio. You can kind of see it... Read More
Home and Garden That awkward in-between stage Posted By Lorena Our Gainesville house is at that awkward, in-between stage where we've moved out, but there's still some crap sitting around for Tim to take to... Read More
Home and Garden Has it been a month, already? Posted By Lorena Time flies when you're fixing one thing after another - or when you're interrupted when fixing one thing in order to hurriedly fix another... As... Read More
Home and Garden Pets The cat shelves (in progress) Posted By Lorena Did I mention the cat shelves Tim is building? (more…) Read More
Home and Garden More vignettes Posted By Lorena This post brought to you by my phone, acting as a mobile hotspot! I went to a Verizon office and see what they could do... Read More
Home and Garden So far, it’s like living in a hotel, with vaguely familiar furniture and nothing 100% completed. Posted By Lorena Next time I move*, I don't think I'm going to buy a bunch of new furniture for the new house at the same time. I... Read More
Home and Garden Vignettes Posted By Lorena The UPS lady almost gave me a hug when she got out of her truck the other day. "I *love* your new driveway!" -- she... Read More
Home and Garden Love is looking in the same direction Posted By Lorena It's a good thing that Tim likes puzzles, because the sheer amount of things that need to be done, all seemingly at the same time,... Read More
Home and Garden We have 3.5 bathrooms out there, you’d think ONE of them would be fully functional Posted By Lorena I'm pretty sure by this point that if you put all three and a half bathrooms together, you'd get one single working one. This is... Read More