Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving!  Ours is about ready to kick off (the Tofurkey is cooking!) and I wanted to sit down and wish you all a happy day, hopefully spent with family and friends. Last year I succumbed to the cliche of listing things I am thankful for.  Well, it has been another great year for us, so please excuse me while I do it again. Friends and Family – All throughout this...

The continuous hassles of home selling have finally gotten to us. The constant back and forth between agents and lawyers, the inspections, the nickel and dime-ing, nervous first-time buyers who are afraid of their own shadows, the signing of sixty-two legally binding documents that we realized our lawyer didn’t even read (yeah, that makes us feel confident)… It’s an ugly process and we can’t...

This fall, Dave and I went backpacking in the White Mountains with some friends who had no previous camping experience. They had NO gear to their names, so it was great fun to send them off to REI with a list of everything they would need to be safe and have a good time. Afterward, it was suggested I post the list here as a general gear guide for people new to backpacking. So I’ve posted it below in...

When we first decided to seriously pursue the idea of moving to the Adirondacks, I knew the hardest part for me would be selling our house. I love this house. LOVE. And I love to tell the story of how we came to own it, since it’s a perfect illustration of how Dave and I live our lives. Just over two years ago, I was bored at work one afternoon cruising the real estate section of Craigslist when I...

I know we’ve taken quite a hiatus from updating the site, but it’s all for a good reason…we promise. The last couple of months have been consumed by looking at houses, selling our home in Boston, and tying up various loose ends so that we can pack up and relocate our lives to the place we love the most – the Adirondacks. It’s a huge, scary, exciting decision – one that we...