Lord of the Castle

The pain of moving lasts long after you physically move your possessions. Long after your tired body recovers, you must endure the pain of living parts of your life at a snail’s pace! Simple things takes SO much time to accomplish… BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO FIND EVERYTHING!!! You would think that after I have found my razor, found my shampoo, [...]

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Last weekend, we moved everything out of the apartment. With that success under my belt, I had the opportunity to start moving our possessions our of our storage facility! Man, is that something that makes you want to get out of bed or what??? Yippee! That is quite a formidable task. All of the rest of the [...]

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I planned to get into Nashville at midnight… But we left NJ an hour late… and I didn’t expect the hours worth of stop and go traffic when we left D.C. … So, we got into Nashville at 2:30 A.M.! This little Nashville diversion all started when I called my second daughter about two weeks ago [...]

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In our home in California, I built a room for my library. In our previous apartment, we used the third bedroom as the library. Now, two of our three nice bookcases and my writing table are in our bedroom. Needless to say, it is cozy. A few years ago, my wife bought me a leather desk chair [...]

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Little by little, we are making progress. My wife and I now have full access to our bathroom. After a little over a week with an aisle of  just 1 1/2 feet wide, it feels huge! Objectively, it isn’t as big or as nice as our last apartment, but… My wife has nearly finished lining the kitchen [...]

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I wanted to stop so, so badly. After my 60th climb up the stairs, I was tired…pooped. Man, were the excuses flowing…”I worked so hard yesterday…I’m almost 50 years old…” But the work had to get done…today. What am I going to do, let my wife and kids do it??? So, I pressed on. My [...]

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Several months ago, I decided to stop lifting weights. I was at a juncture where I had to commit to seriously training or to stop. The thought of being “muscular” doesn’t hold the appeal it once did when I was younger. I mean, really, who do I have to impress? But, I do want to be [...]

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I spent the evening packing up boxes and boxes of books that I don’t think I am realistically going to read in the next year. We have been using the third bedroom as an office/library. With just two bedrooms, that will obviously not be the case for the next year. As I pulled the books [...]

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Moving is a big deal. I have written about the upheaval that resulted from moving from CA to KS. I have written about the adjustments we have had to make in moving from our own house into an apartment. I have written about the challenges that my two youngest children have  faced in entering public [...]

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I told you that we might be moving… Well, we are. I went to the apartment office to inquire about renewing our lease. I was greeted by exceptionally good news when I got there. It turns out that they lowered their prices a few days ago. In fact, they lowered the price on our apartment [...]

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