Happy 2006!

This has been a busy fall and a very neglected house blog as a result. My apologies. I decided to start this blog early in the summer of 2005 as an outlet to write. It is nice to have a place to write on matters unrelated to current work and it’s a nice way to keep in touch with family and friends on house-related matters. This house has been the center of our family and friends since 1982. It is less of a social hub these days than it was back in its retreat house days, but I know that there are many people out there with a deep affection for the house.

Though this blog has been silent, I have been doing a good bit of writing about this house and its role in my healing from postpartum depression. We moved here in part to restore our health – an escape from the air and water of the San Joaquin Valley in California. This blog has been neglected because I am actually writing a book on my postpartum depression experience. I started the book in late August, around the time the neglect of the blog began, and I expected to complete it by now. As these things go, the project has grown and I do not expect to complete the manuscript until middle spring of 2006. The book features this house in an unusual way, so I will report on the project here as it nears completion.

I hope this note finds everyone well with great prospects for 2006.