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• Richmond: The Good

  By anomadlife on June 9, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  One year ago, we moved to Richmond. This was purely a lifestyle move; no job or family brought us here. We knew very little about Richmond prior to our move – only that housing is cheaper. We’d been casually looking… Read More ›

• Highland County

  By anomadlife on October 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I haven’t been inspired to write lately, so this will be brief. This past weekend, we stayed at an old farmhouse outside of Monterey, Virginia, in Highland County. Years ago, I read an article in a newspaper about the Highland… Read More ›

• Home

  By anomadlife on April 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Like much of the world, we’ve been under (very wishy-washy) shelter-in-place orders here in Virginia. I haven’t socialized with anyone outside my household, gone to a grocery store, restaurant, or to my office, in over a month. It’s the one… Read More ›

• Colombia November 2019 in Pictures

  By anomadlife on November 16, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  At some point I’ll write an in-depth blog post about this trip to Colombia, but I’m too lazy to do that now. We had a good time, my 87-year-old grandmother got to meet my 17-month-old daughter, and I had a… Read More ›

• On Disappearing, Epic Journeys and Running

  By anomadlife on September 17, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Over the course of the last decade or so, I’ve suffered from dozens of temporary obsessions: Yoga: love the idea, hate the practice. Marie Kondo: My space is still a mess, but at least I’m only buying stuff that brings… Read More ›

• Bath County

  By anomadlife on September 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  So, I never truly understood why people want to leave rural places…until our recent Labor Day trip to Bath County. I don’t think I fully understood the difference between being in the mountains and being by the mountains. Most of… Read More ›

• Next Door.

  By anomadlife on August 22, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Have any of you read American Housewife by Helen Ellis? It’s a satirical collection of essays about house-wife-dom. I mention this because I’m kind of obsessed with Nextdoor right now. I check it multiple times a day and (metaphorically) jump… Read More ›

• Deergate 2019, or What I’ve Been Doing All Summer.

  By anomadlife on July 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been a very domestic summer. Since our Memorial Day trip to upstate New York, we haven’t wandered more than 20 miles from home. So far, the number one highlight of my summer has been getting sucked into (as a… Read More ›

• Today Was A Good morning

  By anomadlife on June 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The End.   

• Beaches

  By anomadlife on April 23, 2019 • ( 1 )

  I’ve never been much of a beach person. This is because I hate sand with the burning fury of a thousand suns. The water is nice, the sunsets are nice—even walking on the shoreline where the water has pummeled the… Read More ›

• New Year’s Resolutions.

  By anomadlife on January 15, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  I usually don’t make New Year’s resolutions because most of the time I abandon them before I even start them, and it’s all very disillusioning. But this year I was inspired to make some resolutions thanks to my guilty pleasure, a… Read More ›

• Christmas in Seattle.

  By anomadlife on December 28, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  My brother lives in Seattle, so we (my parents, sister, brother-in-law, husband, baby, two cousins, aunt and uncle) decided to rent an Air B&B in the Capital Hill Neighborhood not too far from my brother’s apartment. The house was great,… Read More ›

• Suburban Farm Tourism #1

  By anomadlife on August 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve decided to start my love where you live project by exploring hyper local agriculture/farming, mostly because I’ve always loved the idea of farm life (in a strictly hypothetical way). A quick google search brought up five “farms” within 15 minutes of… Read More ›

• Love Where You Live?

  By anomadlife on August 8, 2018 • ( 1 )

  It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I had a baby (pictured below) and that’s turned out to be as time-consuming as one would expect. Even so, I had three major goals for my maternity leave (aside from taking care… Read More ›

• Fall Travels in New England

  By anomadlife on October 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

    I’ve always wanted to visit New England in fall, and this year we finally went. We drove to Woodstock, New York, then on to Campton New Hampshire, Woodstock Vermont, and finally, Saratoga Springs, New York. I really love New… Read More ›

• Sicily

  By anomadlife on July 26, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Sicily was not what I expected. Intellectually, I know that Europe is not all cobblestone streets and old-world charm — I know that off the tourist path there are suburbs, industrial zones, and boring stretches of featureless or unattractive landscapes,… Read More ›

• Snow and Wintering in Upstate New York

  By anomadlife on April 5, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I feel like I’ve spent every winter since elementary school (when the possibility of snow days were almost as exciting as Christmas morning) waiting for spring to come. My state of winter-induced “restless melancholia” usually starts around mid-November, when the trees settle… Read More ›

• Snow-Birding in Arizona Part II: Nature

  By anomadlife on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  One of the most interesting and rewarding things about traveling west is observing how much the terrain changes in relation to elevation. On our way north from Phoenix to Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon, we saw the landscape change from jagged, barren mountains to… Read More ›

• Snow-birding in Arizona, Part I

  By anomadlife on March 10, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  A few years ago, I wrote a bit about my initial observations of the American Southwest; I was floored by the nature but not all that impressed by Phoenix, the city I spent most of my time in. Maybe it’s… Read More ›

• A Weekend in Trump and Bernie’s America

  By anomadlife on March 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The weekend of January 20th was to be the moment I finally learned to embrace winter. Gone would be the sun-deficiency induced darkness that dramatically pervades my being somewhere in mid-December. No more winter blues inspiring deluded fantasies of moving to Dallas or… Read More ›