I promised Susan I would not post this post until all the repairs to our home had been completed and the checks had been cashed. When we first met with the repair team from SERVPRO — this would have been on October 29 — one of the things Susan wanted them to commit to in writing was a completion date.… read entire post

Our house has become one large sliding tile puzzle. In the rooms with damaged baseboards, everything has to be away from the walls. Many of those rooms are also getting repainted, which means everything has to be removed from those walls. Also, the rooms that are getting new carpet (our primary bedroom and closet, my office and closet, and Susan’s… read entire post

On the morning of October 12, Susan and I woke up to discover roughly an inch of standing water in half of our house. Many of you have asked how things have been going and so here is a quick update, along with a mini-tour of Floodville. The week of the flood, a company (Serve Pro) came out to “stop… read entire post

Today, I set up flood lights in the front yard to light up our 12-foot skeleton. I did this because it was something I could change. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” I learned the Serenity Prayer early in life. I… read entire post

It’s been a couple days since my last update so here’s where things stand as of Friday afternoon. For the record, I read my previous post to see where things had left off and I was shocked by how many typos were in it. Chalk that up to writing blog updates from my van combined with sheer exhaustion. Last Sunday,… read entire post

Hi, friends! Just a quick update on what’s been going on the last couple of days. Saturday night around midnihgt, our hot water heater (which was less than two years old) failed and spent the next six hours filling our house with water. When I woke up early Sunday morning to go to the bathroom I discovered the carpet was… read entire post

Back in 2018 Susan and I were furloughed for over a month. Financially it was a difficult time. We had just purchased a new house, our old house hadn’t sold yet, and with two mortgages, car payments, and Christmas approaching, both Susan and I suddenly stopped receiving paychecks. But even more than the financial stress was the emotional toll. I… read entire post

I was fairly incensed last week when ABC decided to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s show. As someone with an associate’s degree in journalism, the importance of the freedom of speech was drilled into me. (I’m not interested in debating the reasons why Kimmel’s show was suspended. Now here, anyway.) Instead of shouting into the void of Twitter, I decided to put… read entire post