Category: Moving & Kids

  • Hiding in Alaska with a Criminal Past

    Hiding in Alaska with a Criminal Past

    It is dark as night and 14 below zero on this winter morning in Alaska, and I’m driving my son to school. There are no streetlights on the highway we take into town, but this morning there is a huge full moon lighting the way. The moon hovers just above the tree line. A creeping…

  • Fooled by a Dummy

    Fooled by a Dummy

      How I was outsmarted by a dummy:   In the bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/organizing-tips/a25908482/marie-kondo-book-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up-tips/one of Marie Condo’s basic rules is to get rid of anything that does not spark joy. While my daughter took this to a whole new level whittling down her belongings to basically the clothes on her back,…