The day after Christmas I headed to Samantha's new house to help her move some things inside. Once done, we spent the next few hours hopping from place to place, with me in the backseat the whole time because I don't have enough sense to call shotgun against a fourteen year old girl. We ate, we s...  read more

A few years earlier I helped my parents make the decision to buy a house in Lincoln, New Mexico right about the time I was applying for college. That's a story on it's own, but the result was that part of me wanted a house in the middle of nowhere too. Though I was born in the vicinity of their n...  read more