I have been working on this website for several weeks. This is my second website, the first having been hacked last July. It was difficult... I had the site since 2014; and it was full and had hundreds of hours of work in it. But, I just took a deep breath, went to a new host and started a new website. I had to change my website name a bit, which hurts when you have branded yourself diligently. But, I do what I have to do. Sometimes, unexpectedly - we start over. It's certainly not as traumatic …

We have had an amazing journey. I'm sure I'm not unusual in this - especially during the last two years! In 2019 I made a huge change in my life. I retired from federal government medical care in Massachusetts and moved 350 miles southwest to the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania. After living in our family home for 37 years; where I raised two beautiful sons, I decided it was time. It was time to slow down, time to whittle down my spending and live more simply, frugally. Pennsylvania is lo…