It's been exactly one year since we received our lifeshock. One year since the volcanic news that we were no longer welcome, wanted, or needed at the farm in New Jersey landed in our inboxes. One year since a friendship we thought would last a lifetime disintegrated into ash through the text of one email. An email that left us without a home, Nathan without a job, and all of us without the future ... View Post
18 Years
18 years. This blog is 18 and a couple of weeks old. Where did all that time go? It's not a place I visit very often anymore. Maybe it will be again. Or maybe I will become one of those substackers. But today, sitting in a hotel room in San Francisco, on the cusp of graduating from graduate school, eight months into a new job, living in a new state (Ohio) after surviving the ... View Post
Opening the Window (Or how Grown-up sleepovers might just heal the world.)
Recently my therapist introduced me to a nervous-system regulating concept called the Window of Tolerance. As I understand it, Window of Tolerance is very similar to what I call "margin" and what some folk call "emotional bandwidth." It is a way to talk about our capacity for regulating our nervous system and our responses to stress, trauma and trauma triggers, and to being overwhelmed. In ... View Post
Preservation Acres: Mudroom
Well, we have begun our second week at the new farm, and while there will be MANY stories to tell and pictures to share, I am not entirely done telling the story of Preservation Acres and all we did there on this blog. So today, I am posting about our mudroom transformation. When we moved to PA in the fall of 2014, this room - and the adjoining bedroom, was one long space. We suspect it was a ... View Post
Moving is hard
Moving is hard. Moving after 30 years in a place is probably even harder. I don't know for as sure, as this is my first time making such a move, but it feels harder. And more emotional. Which might be the 30-year thing, or it might be the peri-menopause. Who can say? As a child, I moved a lot. I think one time I counted 12 places that my family had lived in 12 years. Looking back, I realized ... View Post
Preservation Acres: Primary Bathroom Remodel
"Love is particular: we name this person and love them. We invest in this place, in this soil and watch things grow.” – Leonard Hjalmarson As we get ready to move and start our new adventure I wanted to take some time to record some of the projects and events missed here on the blog. This blog has been around so long and has already borne witness to so many changes in our lives, that it seems ... View Post
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