Tag: drafty houses

  • Cheerios in the Floorboards and Other Assorted Commonalities

    Cheerios in the Floorboards and Other Assorted Commonalities

    Most people pick their friends based on sympathetic personalities, socio-economic similarities, common interests, or the age of their children. But we seem to be collecting friends who, like us, live in old and partially renovated houses.  I can’t decide whether our rural roots or similar value sets are bringing us together or whether there is… Read more

  • Crazy Like the Wind

    Crazy Like the Wind

    I think that everyone develops their personal and unique bit of oddness as time progresses. Choosing something that meets my current interests, I’ve decided that I will be the nutty woman who runs around her house obsessively checking for drafts. I spring out of my chair in the middle of conversations asking whether someone opened… Read more