I'm feeling a little introspective today because I just realized that it's been ten years since I set a New Year's resolution to start a blog. At that point I had been working in publishing as a writer and editor for a very long time and ... Keep Reading
The New Year’s Resolution That Changed My Life
Let's take a little trip in the "Way Back Machine" to January 2008, when I was working as a writer for a textbook publishing company... I was writing everything from quizzes to case studies for marketing and business textbooks. It was ... Keep Reading
Notice Anything Different Around Here?
Hooray! My new blog design finally went live this morning. For the last few weeks you may have seen things moving around as my tech genius Zalary helped me reorganize, remove the clutter, change the header, switch sidebars around, and get ... Keep Reading
Looking Back on 4 Years of Blogging and Some of the Stupid Mistakes That Got Me Here
Four years ago I started this blog on a whim. I had no idea what I was doing. And I did pretty much everything wrong from the get-go. I never set out to have a successful blog--I just wanted a place to talk about the houses that interested ... Keep Reading
The Story of How “House Lust” Got Me Here
Three years ago today, I picked up a new book at the library called House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes, and it changed. My. Life. For real. Because it talked about how some people just can't get enough of houses--looking at ... Keep Reading