We are sorting books into two categories: those that are going to the auction house and those that are going to our new home. Either way they are all ending up in boxes.

Earl and I each have our own

 … finish reading Day Three

Earl is in box-making mode, having visited the local box company today and purchased 25 of its finest containers. He’s taping the bottoms like a madman and stacking them in the family room. Good thing we have a vaulted ceiling.

 … finish reading Day Two

Yesterday we closed on the sale of the house we’ve called home for several years. It’s a sprawling ranch; at least it sprawls when only two people live in it. And we’ve loved being here. Yet, we’re moving on.

With

 … finish reading Day One

Seventeen months ago we put our house on the market, smack in the middle of the real estate recession. Since then we’ve had who-knows-how-many people come through our home, commenting on this and questioning that. We knew it was part

 … finish reading The Long Goodbye

I started learning Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” in the grey of last November. I wasn’t learning an arrangement or a dumbed down version; I learned the real thing, the music as Beethoven wrote it. With octaves in the left hand and

 … finish reading Beethoven and Me

Tomorrow Earl and I are driving to Chicago to attend a funeral. My longtime friend Judi just lost her father, and we want to be there as he is laid to rest.

I met Judi’s father, Lester Corso, only

 … finish reading The Passing of Time

It’s been a while since I blogged and today I’m catching up. I don’t know where this week went. I spent most of it battling snow and ice so that I could get to various appointments. This meant taking several

 … finish reading So Much Has Happened