Posts under ‘Moving’

Before I was able to add myself to the lease for the new apartment, I had to meet with the property manager, a wonderful woman from Alabama who met me for coffee. “What is it that you do?” she asked, and I told her all about the job that brings in the money.
Later, I mentioned [...]

Just before Christmas, I was having a conversation with a guy who flitted in—then out—of my life like a strange and beautiful moth. “I am done with roommates,” I said. “Never again.”
“Absolutely,” he said. “The only roommate I’ll ever have again will be the one that’s sharing my bed.”
It was in the same vein of [...]

Over MLK Weekend, I flew out to Reno to meet some friends from Iowa for some skiing, some carousing, and some general catching up in the Lake Tahoe area. On the way up the mountain from Reno, we hit the agricultural inspection station just across the California border, the one I went through on my [...]

On Friday night, as The Mint Killer and I arrived home from the VIP Preview of the Slow Food Nation Taste Pavilion, I checked my mail and found my California driver’s license. This is the only state in which I have ever lived where you have to wait for the license to arrive by mail. [...]

Remember how I said on Thursday night that I push deadlines but don’t miss them and that I’d report back about BlogHer, um, yesterday?
Well, make that tomorrow. The conference is still going on, it’s been an amazing weekend of networking and experiences and the occasional gratis glass of Prosecco (OK, maybe the occasional two glasses?), [...]

While I might have set limits on my most excellent readers, I did not set limits on myself as I set about to place a Penzey’s order. Pick my top three spices and stop there? Nevah!
I did give serious consideration to Roshani’s suggestion that I hit the San Francisco Herb Company, and I took a [...]

My exit out of Iowa happened almost faster than I could have imagined. I made a trip out to California to visit a friend in mid-April, and at the time, my party line was that I was looking for jobs and might move out here, might not.
Two weeks later, I flew out for an interview. [...]

After my original lavender plant overwintered successfully from Garden Year One to Garden Year Two, I decided to see if I could go for three years in a row. At the end of the season last year, I buried it (as I had the year before) in a larger pot and sat back for the [...]