From There to Here: A Light Heart

It was a day for Big Wheels and windbreakers.

We spent the next few hours before nap time exploring our own back yard, looking for bugs and drawing with chalk wet from the previous week’s rain. I followed his small legs and his lead, doing whatever struck his fancy.

From There to Here: On The Hamster Wheel

Photo by uberculture, Flickr

When you work at home, you’re a hamster on a wheel. You’re running all the time, and still the horizon never gets closer.

From There to Here: Not There

Brown Abbey (Photo by Bernice Hatch)

Sometimes, it’s hard not to be there.

From There to Here: Can A Hater Be Reformed?

Prairie summer storms? Yep, hate 'em. (Photo by Amy L. Hatch)

For the first 24 months of This Chambanan Life, I hated living here. And when I say “hate” I mean: “Wow, I hate this place with the heat of 1,000 suns, how can I get us the hell out of here as soon as humanly possible?”

From There to Here: February

Photo by H. Michael Karshis, Flickr

Outside the car window, the sun hit the treetops and just for a moment I was reminded of home. Not the home where I live, but the home from whence I came. The home that made me who I am today, the home that I so rarely get to see.