Starting Out

Hello.

I guess that’s the first order of business.

I’m about to change my life pretty drastically – I’m moving from Vermont to Oregon to start Architecture grad school. With that change, and since I’ve just done a couple of weeks worth of research on the subject, (maybe a little bit longer than it ought to have taken…) I’m giving in to the blogging craze. So welcome to my blog, which will focus at least for a while on my cross-country trip.

Before I get there, though, a few thoughts on starting this blog. I feel a bit like it could be that magic way of getting all my friends back. Lately, lots of fantastic people have been getting in touch with me from eras past. Also, I’m about to leave an unparallelled group of friends behind in Brattleboro. Plus, I seem to keep meeting wonderful people wherever I go (more on that in a sec). I used to dream about having a ski lodge where everyone I was friends with would come and hang out, and we’d all go snowboarding every day and drink hot apple cider every night. Who knows where that idea came from for a Florida girl, but the place had great beams in the ceiling and a huge fire.

Anyways, since I’m notoriously bad at corresponding, perhaps blogging will work for me. Having an audience can be a great boon to a writer, even if that audience is imagined. Welcome to my blog. Let’s see how it is being here.