One Hundred and Fifty Eight Days and One Hundred and Fifty Eight Posts
The fire happened 158 days ago. We have posted 158 entries to the blog. We have missed making entries a …
Category Archives: Bittersweet Reflections
Giving Credit to the Fire
We are working on the details of paying for a house. When we got the checks from the insurance company …
Sometimes it Really is that Simple
The work we have done this week in recovering from the fire has been hard. It has been that moment …
Emotinoal Value and Monitary Value
We have been working on completing our personal property inventory for our insurance claim. It has taken a long time …
Learning What We Already Know
I have a new lesson from the fire this week. I learned what I already know. Sometimes it is easy …
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Today, like so many days living in our temporary lives in our temporary house waiting for the promise of a …
The Essential Thanksgiving Dinner
We had the essentials of Thanksgiving dinner tonight. It was not a fancy affair. The three hours of the smell …
Learning Thankfulness from the Ashes of Our Fire
We have steeled ourselves for weeks to use Thanksgiving week to buckle down and survive the tedium and emotional onslaught …
Crushed Under the Weight of the Grief and Paperwork of Loss
The past two days have been some of the harder ones in a good long while. It is not the …
Simulations of Home
I have a computer program that lets me transfer our house plans into 3D models. I can make a flat …
Building One Home 