Making Butter

5-3-15

There's an illustration from Rubel Shelly's Happiness Is... that I want to share with you. Let me tell you a story about two frogs. Their names were Optimist and Pessimist. They somehow managed to get stuck in a farmer's pail of milk and left overnight. At first they both swam, but Pessimist decided there was no hope and, as my husband says, went "glub, glub, glub." But Optimist didn't give up. He kept swimming and swimming. In the morning when the farmer looked in the pail, Optimist was sitting on freshly churned butter.

How I Bought Patience

8-9-14

I got a big dose of patience this year in the form of four walls and a home loan. Ok, so you can't "buy" patience, but when my husband and I bought a house a whole host of trials came in an unwritten postscript beneath the many dotted lines we signed. Between rules and requirements of loan companies, zoning regulations, and all the unexpected expenses and complications that came with the house, I learned about patience. From October of last year until May of this year I learned about waiting to move into a house that you had already committed to. You know those big yellow books about the Dummies' Guide to such and so forth? I have some recommendations for one about buying a house.