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Review of Raised in Ruins
Many of us have dreamed of escaping the stressful demands of our current life with the wish for a simpler one, surrounded by a breathtaking view. How far have you gotten? Me? Well, we did downsize three years ago. We moved into an almost tiny home (at 753 sq. ft.) on a little hill in rural America after bringing a 30 Yard dumpster to our backdoor, having a garage sale, and giving away the rest. And then just this year, we bought a very small camper to pull behind a larger car so we could have new adventures. All this was because Alzheimer’s forced us into a new reality. And…
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How to Survive
Every time I step out the door I’m thinking about what I need to do to stay alive. It’s not a dominating thought, it’s a comfortably familiar awareness that has been with me ever since my parents moved my family to a remote part of Alaska when I was six years old. Our first home in this new, raw world, was a floathouse. In this case, it was a regular wood-frame house that had been winched aboard a raft made up of massive logs, formerly ancient trees. It was of the “shotgun” type with one room seguing into the next in a straight line from front door to back door.…
