When we announced a move-across-town early this fall I heard a couple of stories from family about how they had experienced their moves. My sister had moved from Ontario, Canada, to Iowa, leaving a well-loved home, but didn’t find it emotionally difficult–or at least didn’t admit to it. On the other hand, my sister-in-law found it hard to leave her house which was in the same town in which she’d grown up, but found an instant cure when, returning to her old house the same day she moved to retrieve something or other, saw that the new folks had already ripped out her carpet. “I knew just then it wasn’t my home anymore.” Us? We bought a house, then had to fix up our other one in order to list, then sweated out the “for sale” period, then accepted a fairly lengthy closing–a somewhat risky and backwards approach. Ah, the strange impulses of usually indecisive people–still, it’s been more than worth it.
I’d love to hear more stories . . .
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Hi Fair to Middling,
How nice to see another great blog. I could tell you some very moving stories (I quit counting my moves after I’d done 25!) Some good, some terrible, frustrating moves. Whenever I moved locally I knew that at least once, after a long day of work, I’d drive to the **old** place. Never fails.
If you go to your “Dashboard” you can add other features to your blog. One is called a Blogroll that lets you share links (perhaps to websites or blogs that feature your hobby.) That way, visitors to your blog can easily visit sites you’ve found useful.
You can also add “widgets” to your blog site, again by going into your “Dashboard” and dragging appropriate widgets into your template. These widgets would, for example, allow you to add RSS feeds to your blog. If this makes no sense to you, feel free to ask me!
Anyway, have fun with Learning 2.0 — and keep on blogging!
By: LibraryStreetCat on February 8, 2008
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