Voting Based on Where You Cannot Live
We went to our usual polling place today. It was eerie because so much of our district was burned or …
Category Archives: Recovery from Losing Home to Wildfire
USB 1, 2 and 3
The first personal computer arrived in our house in 1986 and operated on DOS with a “floppy disk.” We used …
Scavenger Hunt to Treasure Trove
Immediately after we lost our house to the fire, I found four plastic cups in the back of our van. …
I Need to See the Devistation
Another airplane flight back to our town, another airplane flight not back home. Tonight as we were driving to our …
Social Rituals and Traumatic Stress
This is the 23rd year in a row that I have attended the annual professional meeting of the International Society …
And The List Goes On Forever
I am again working on inventories of personal property. It tedious and difficult. It is personal. Our house was full …
Concrete Plans and Wattles
Two events that occurred today were absolutely antithetical to each other and a third that is just downright unique to …
Forty Days and Forty Nights
Forty days and forty nights. Forty is a mystical number in many spiritual writings. One Greek scholar told me that …
The Saddest Day
I cannot tell if today or the first time I saw the rubble of my house was the saddest. The …
Returning Home
Tonight is the third time that I have returned to our temporary house from a trip. Thankfully it was over …
Building One Home 