Winter has settled in and simplified everything. The essentials of life are heat, (quiet heat is nice, but in an old 1838 farmhouse not essential so long as it is warm), food, shelter, and plumbing….
The early-June day had begun back in St Louis, already mired in its notorious heat and humidity. None of us would miss its oppressive summer climate. Well, maybe I would, following the fifth or sixth…
We pulled onto our lane. It was a dirt road that ended at our new life. The house in Vermont, which we had been thinking about and talking about every day for eight months was…
A few years ago our family went to the life store and picked a new one. We decided we wanted to live in Vermont. We had lived our whole lives in the Midwest. And they…