Category: Lancaster

  • This is Not Normal, But Let’s Take Care of Ourselves

    It’s been a wild few weeks, hasn’t it? [EDIT: Correction. It’s been two weeks. Only two weeks. 👀] I’ve been wanting to write and share here, but I wasn’t sure what to say. I’m sad and angry, but I’m also grateful for the responses in places like Philly and Lancaster. I’m proud of and grateful…

  • Home Buying Story

    I had to keep so much quiet during our home buying adventure that I wanted to circle back and memorialize the abridged version here! It started as a slow, casual slog, but ended in a whirlwind. We’d been casually dropping in to open houses in Lancaster City now and then since mid-November. I’d see something that was…

  • On Moving, Traveling, and Being Present

    I’ve been living in Lancaster City for two full months now. It feels both much shorter and much longer than that to me though. Similarly, we’re quite solidly in midsummer, yet it feels like the summer just began. I’m fairly certain that’s because I haven’t really been here here for a lot of that time.…

  • May Small Goals

    This was maybe one of the weirdest months in recent memory. Not bad weird, thank goodness, just weird weird. I guess that’s what happens when you’re in the process of moving out of a city you’ve lived in and loved for almost four years. I feel like I’m still reeling from it a little, and…

  • Moving to Lancaster

    Big things are happening. A few months ago, I posted my Philly Bucket List — things I wanted to do before leaving Philly. I wasn’t sure what the timeline on that would really be, but it seems to be happening now. We’ve been in kind of a holding pattern for the past year or so. We…