We are down to days before we are ready to list the house for sale. We need one more weekend to wrap up some details - paint touch-ups, cleaning odds and ends - and we’ll be ready. Except I spent yesterday and a good chunk of today trying not to freak out. There is the […]

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The realtor team came back yesterday to tell us what they think we can get for our house. Dex couldn’t work from home yesterday, so I met with them myself, not wanting to delay. I sat through the comps - most of which I was familiar with, either from studying the listings religiously for the […]

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Tomorrow a realtor is coming by to see our place in anticipation of listing. We may or may not list with this person - we still have a few finishing touches to do on the house and are likely a couple of weeks away from being ready to list - but I need to know […]

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I’m too tired to be clever today, so I’ll just give you the list:

getting the house ready to sell, including landscaping, decluttering, sorting, selling stuff, and doing touch up work, and which also includes researching the local housing market, and which *also* includes researching the three (?) possible places we might end up living once […]

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In recent weeks I have invested considerable physical and mental energy into starting to get our house ready to list. Dex has been working on his list, highly visible things like repainting the kitchen. He has some outside projects (a little siding work, some fence work) and some inside projects (repainting parts of walls, completely […]

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Do you really want me to write today? Because I must warn you that my thoughts are a tangle. I am trying to gather them up and have them make some sort of sense, to put them in some sort of order, but they keep slipping through my mental fingers. Here are the threads I am […]

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There are levels… layers… of adjustment.
Today we met with Davey’s school team — school director, regular pre-K teacher, sped teacher, therapists — to discuss his Kindergarten program for the coming year. The meeting went well, we all agreed on the type of program and support he needs. And he needs a lot. A year ago, […]

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Not literally today, of course. It’s a gray winter day in New England.
But hey, that’s ok today!
My photographs, all 23 of them, are mounted and matted and framed. They are offically ready to hang and tonight I drop them off at the gallery. Yesterday the curator sent me a copy of the press release and […]

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What ever happened to all that NaBloPoMo gumption? It has fled with the late autumn. We are in deep freeze here. The windows are frosted over so that all I can see is a white haze where usually is visible the barn and the pasture and the dark shapes of the horses milling around the […]

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Honestly, I think the only way I can truly capture how sick - SICK - I am of this all is to tell you how sick I feel most of the time. My stomach aches and burns, my chest is tight and feels at times as though it might literally explode from the sheer pressure […]

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