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Rental House in Austin?
Our house, photographed by Ben Becker Dear Universe,… Read MoreI’m not one of those hardcore subscribers to the idea of “manifesting,” but I figure it can’t hurt to put a tiny request out into the world.
You see, my family and I are going to need a rental house in Austin. We could be moving as soon as August 1, if Matt is able to secure a job and we’re able to sell our Houston house before then. I met with a realtor who thinks it’s highly likely that our house will sell quickly, since there aren’t many comparable houses available in our neighborhood right now.
I am so sad to
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Dwelling in Possibility: Progress Update
Last week, I attended a training in Austin about how to start a charter school. When I first heard about the training, I thought, “There’s no way I can go. It’s in the middle of May, and Henry won’t even be three months yet. I won’t be able to pump enough milk to leave him in Houston with a babysitter while I travel all the way to Austin and back. And if I did pump enough milk, where would I pump while I was at the training so my breasts don’t get engorged?”… Read MoreBut the more I thought about it, the more I realized I simply had to go. I
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Dwelling in Possibility: Part One
The other day I was looking through my old writers’ notebooks in search of something and I came across this quote:… Read More“Always in life an idea starts small; it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.”–Bryce Courtenay
I want to touch the face of the sky. I want to take active, giant steps along the path of my
