Nashville’s rainy season starts in October and ends in September. It’s always a good time to prepare.
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5 Things I Wish People Knew About Keeping the House In A Divorce
If one party is keeping the house and it has a mortgage, refinance the debt. That way the person who owns the house has the mortgage. This is the biggest deal for the person not keeping the house. The lender doesn’t care about divorce decrees or quit claim deeds.
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Celebrating Clean Slates 🍎
Every day I’m juggling priorities, lists, and needs with how much sleep is needed to get through it all again. And the mundane tasks can be so wearing. That said, I always wish I could be a better version of myself. I wish I could be a little earlier, a little more prepared, a little more on top of it all, a little more patient. Any marker of a fresh start gives me a little zip of a clean slate.
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Recent Readings: The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Goodman, Simon (2015). The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by…
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How will the FHA Mortgage Insurance Rate Cut Cancellation Affect Buyers and Sellers?
I was shocked when President Trump cancelled a planned rate cut for FHA mortgage insurance….
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How does Nashville’s Heat and Humidity Affect Homes?
When it comes to summertime in Nashville, your house is in a rainforest. No matter what time of year it is, look at your house as if it were getting heavy rain and heat every day.
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“Is Charlie Coming with Us?” Preparing Young Children to Move to Your New Home
I remember a move when I was five where my dad gave my two cats…
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Build a Simple Raised Bed Garden
In case the gardening bug hasn’t bit you yet, I’m writing to give you a little inspiration and direction for starting small. Here are directions for one 4×4 planter box that will fit almost anywhere and give you plenty of planting options.
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In Life and in Staging: It’s not what you get rid of but what you keep
My whole life I’ve had trouble letting things go. I would eventually remember how much I enjoyed them, or feel the pressure of whoever gave them to me, be it as a gift or hand-me-down.
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Love the Ones You’re Snowed in With
To date I’ve updated my operating system and my phone, moved a ton of old pictures and videos to an external hard drive, roasted a chicken on a bed of root vegetables, made chicken and dumplings with Brooks and Stephanie rolling out the dumplings, a red curry, oven pancakes with a fruit compote, oatmeal porridge, and an eighth of a new scarf.
