Here’s a question for you: are you taking in life or are you taken in by life? Everyone does a little of both, but you probably lean toward one more than the other. Though they sound similar, there’s a subtle difference between the two that can change the way you live. What’s the difference?
While on vacation this week, I read a short blog post by Allison Vesterfelt entitled “The Difference Between an Ordinary Life and an Extraordinary One.” It was a great reminder that you don’t have to do extraordinary things to have an extraordinary life. It’s actually the little things that fuel an extraordinary life. Since she […]
Finally! All our stuff was packed. It was all on a truck, or jammed into a car. So I went back into the house and took a final look around. I walked through the empty rooms that had been home for twenty years. The walls were dotted with nail holes and tattooed with marks here and there. […]
“You’re not done yet.” This is what I’ve been telling myself lately. We’re very close to moving into a new home, and I’m sure some of you are tired of hearing this continuing saga. I’m with you. I’m tired of living it. Still, this experience keeps teaching me things about about marriage…especially this week.
If you live long enough you’re going to get a few scars. They are the badges of memories, stories, and life. I have a scar on my left palm that I got as a small child when I ran around a corner and into someone riding a bicycle.
Let me just cut to the chase here. One of the things I’ve learned from this house buying experience is that if you want to get from the house you have to the house you want…it’s going to cost you. Certainly there’s the cost of the new mortgage, but there’s also expenses like fees, repairs […]
Have you ever had a total stranger hand you a list of things they believed needed to be changed about something really personal to you? That’s what a home inspection list is. I niavely thought it would be smooth sailing after the contract was signed. After all, we had a buyer who wanted the house enough to sign a […]
My wife and I are in the process of selling our current house and buying a new one. (It’s a big deal to us since it’s probably the last house we’ll own before our kids put us in the nursing home.) It’s a daunting process. Since we’ve been in our current house for twenty years, the […]
I was on my way to work one morning and there it was. A small box turtle inching it’s way across the road. There wasn’t a good place to pull over or to turn around and I was running a little late for work, so I decided not to stop. A couple of days later, […]