When Steve and I started the house hunting process a few years ago, I had steeled myself for a long, arduous process. Amazingly enough, it only took us about a month to find this house and while it didn't meet all of our criteria, it had enough of what we wanted for us to be able to make it a home. And I think that's why I love this place so much. Because we have made it our home. Of course, there's always room for improvement but overall, it is beautiful. It's comfortable. It's welcoming. And it's ours. When I was picking
Read MoreThe post I wanted to write yesterday included the following opening, which seemed perfectly brilliant at the time: A thick, low lying fog enveloped the Lowcountry today as I drove to work. Since you can't go anywhere in this area without crossing a (if not a few) bridge, I was treated to brilliant, shining sunlight at the peak of both bridges that I drive over on my way to work and then immediately plunged into dark, murky depths as I reached the bottom. If I had known, at the time, that it was a wonderful metaphor on how my day would go,
Read MoreI think part of my problem is I don't make time to write. And then, when I finally do, I don't know how to make the mundane sound interesting. Or how to make a month or two's worth of information readable without it being a laundry list of this and that. I always say, "I'm going to do it this month. I'm going to write about something, anything, every day". Then I spend all day at work on the computer and little tasks at home get in the way and before I know it, the day is over and I can't
Read MoreSo it's Autumn and I guess that officially means Summer is over. Ninety-percent of me wants to jump and shout but there's that other ten that's always sad that the carefree days and lazy nights are gone. But with Autumn comes crisp evenings (yes, we've actually had these in Charleston the past few days! See the grin from ear to ear?), football, Halloween, sweatshirts, fuzzy socks, and things like this (that's not a paid endorsement - that's me telling you to go buy the Leaves stuff now!). Some days I look at the date and am still amazed at how quickly the days
Read MoreOn the road again, originally uploaded by kallure. You can tell my dog hates traveling. (In his defense, the flash on the phone is super bright!)
