Dear Readers,
As some of you may know and others may not—if you’re a part of the latter group, please don’t take that lack of knowledge to mean that you and I are not friends, although there’s a good chance that we haven’t talked in many months and my iPhone has therefore automatically deleted your phone number and caused me to instantly forget everything about you—my wife and I closed on a house last week. This is a big step in my adult development, and as such it was met with a flurry of emotions that have swirled around inside me. Elation. Despair. Satisfaction. Anxiety. Apprehension. For most people buying a house is nothing but a good thing. For me, it was an amazing thing wrapped around something else, something that caused me to occasionally become so uptight and fidgety that I’d walk into the bathroom at work and stare at myself in the mirror, wondering what was causing my body to shake
As some of you may know and others may not—if you’re a part of the latter group, please don’t take that lack of knowledge to mean that you and I are not friends, although there’s a good chance that we haven’t talked in many months and my iPhone has therefore automatically deleted your phone number and caused me to instantly forget everything about you—my wife and I closed on a house last week. This is a big step in my adult development, and as such it was met with a flurry of emotions that have swirled around inside me. Elation. Despair. Satisfaction. Anxiety. Apprehension. For most people buying a house is nothing but a good thing. For me, it was an amazing thing wrapped around something else, something that caused me to occasionally become so uptight and fidgety that I’d walk into the bathroom at work and stare at myself in the mirror, wondering what was causing my body to shake
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