Essays
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Training for a Finish Line I Haven’t Reached Yet
Fitness isn’t a savings account you deposit into and draw from later. Sure, there are compounding benefits to moving consistently over the years. The research clearly shows staying active adds years to your life and even more importantly, quality to those years. Technically, I come back pretty fast thanks to muscle memory.
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Cozyla Calendar Review: Real Wins, Real Frustrations
If you’re patient with tech and willing to find the workarounds, there’s something here. If you need it to work intuitively out of the box — especially for a kid who needs clear, exciting feedback — you’re going to hit walls.
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Building a Sustainable Sense of Home
Each time we move, I try to start small: where can we participate, not just consume? What grows here, literally and figuratively, that we can tend to?
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From Benched to Balanced: How Embracing Athletic Injuries Can Make You Stronger
My injury threw up “no” after “no.” No rowing, my main sport. But also, no biking, running, or stair-stepping allowed. No leg press, squats, or deadlifts. Once I stopped resisting and accepted what I couldn’t do, the question became: what could I do?
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A Home Buyer and Seller’s Journey- Part 8: Moving Days
You’d think packing and unloading would be easy, with all our experience. Nope. This was the most stressful move yet.
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A Home Buyer and Seller’s Journey- Part 7: The Closing That Almost Wasn’t
Is there a real estate transaction that doesn’t have a bump in the road at some point? Our blip came three days before scheduled closing.
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A Home Buyer and Seller’s Journey- Part 6: That Weird Space In Between Contracts
We enter transaction purgatory. It’s that weird space between contracts when “stuff” is happening, but mostly it’s out of your control.
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A Home Buyer and Seller’s Journey- Part 5: Finding the Right House
House hunting when you feel under a time crunch is stressful. We vowed not to let time play a role in our decision-making, but I can’t deny that it did.