Well, it finally happened. My old printer up and died. It didn’t stop in the middle of a print job, nor did it crank out slow images and then cough and wheeze and limp to a halt. One day I…
MY PRINTER JUST DIED
Category: downsizing to smaller apartment
CLEARING PHOTOGRAPHY CLUTTER
I’m into clearing clutter these days, and though we drastically downsized a couple years ago, gathering ‘stuff’ seems to be as natural to me as breathing. So, lesson learned, I will not let ‘stuff’ get the upper-hand in my life.…
A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE WRITING LIFE
Lately I’ve been doing a great deal of work on PUSHING WATER, a novel in revision, and getting the final drafts of FISH KICKER ready for its publication that’s coming in March 2014. Most of the day I sit at…
DEAR DIARY
Quite a bit has happened since we downsized over a year ago and moved into a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan. But the really big news this year is that my novel FISH KICKER was accepted by MuseItUp, a publishing…
NO PROBLEM
If you’ve been reading my blog you know that we’ve undergone a major life change with downsizing and moving into Manhattan. It’s certainly been fun and interesting adjusting to all these changes but this new life style has totally messed…
DO YOU SMELL THAT?
The last couple of days I’ve been preoccupied with smells. Not just any smells, but memory smells. This obsession was triggered when I opened the plastic bin where I now store my office supplies since we downsized. When I pulled…
SUMMER IN THE CITY
The move is over. Our downsizing these days has been reduced to taking out the garbage. What a change to be living in a one-bedroom place compared to our large spread out old six-room apartment back in the Bronx. There…
THE MOVE
I can’t begin to tell you how happy I was to see the moving van pull up to our apartment building. We had done all of our own packing but it was now up to the three strong, young men who…
JAWS
This downsizing experience has been going on since the beginning of February and it is now June. For weeks and week while we wait for the renovations to be completed on our new and smaller apartment, I’ve been picking through…
WAR BONDS
Our downsizing is almost over. The renovation of the new apartment is nearly completed, the move-in date is drawing near and I keep running into things, items long forgotten like this photo of my parents and me. There is…