This is a brain-dump and research-blurch I just did for a compatriot. These are issues that come up occasionally — every 28 days, for many… Read More »Nerdy stuff: menstruation, hormones, pregnancy, and pain
This, right after “Keep breathing”, is one of my go-to pieces of mind management. It’s about so much more than consequences. Let’s take an example.… Read More »There’s always an afterwards
There I was, trying to steer the 3-headed rhinoceros that is the de-mold-the-mobile-home project (dubbed “DeStroy DeMold.”) Two of my volunteers had gotten sick with… Read More »Shore Break
I’m aware that I disappeared for awhile. Obsessively focusing on housing and breakup, everything else sorta disappeared. Here’s what that period looked like, framed around… Read More »What I did with my summer
The massive physiological destabilization triggered by J’s departure doesn’t change my own deadlines: I still have to get out by next week, stay somewhere in… Read More »Back to work
J just drove away from here for the last time. Friday, he filled up the kindling box and organized the firewood to his satisfaction. (Yes,… Read More »A fond farewell
In my blogs on getting safe housing, I’ve researched and discussed the following: What aspects of ordinary housing do me in What alternative building techniques… Read More »Cold Watershed
(If you’re looking for my housing-search info, go here for the latest with all the tables, and here for the one before that 🙂 )… Read More »3-4 solid tools for tough times
What a couple of weeks it has been! The local police chief failed to take a police report about an identity theft for 4 weeks.… Read More »Fixing the old, opening doors…and 2 shameless plugs for highly competent friends
Over the past 14 months I’ve gotten a look at every house I found that was: 1. Already built, 2. In my price range &… Read More »Some Kind of Watershed on the Imp-possibility of Safe Housing