Country Roads | City Streets: One Bare Foot on Each (Or: On the Prospect of Moving Home...ish)
The whys and the wherefores are many, but simple enough, I suppose:
The logistics and precise time split between here and DC? I'm still working out the details. The most likely option is that I'll spend a couple weeks here in the mountains each month, and a couple back in the DC area. My DC-based clients are cool with my doing my writing remotely, and I can do that just as easily from here as I can from there.
Two years ago when I tried moving down here, it flat-out didn't take. Again, I plead: "Mom (*sigh*)" ...
This time, I'll have my own space. This time, it's not precipitated by and set against the backdrop of a painful break-up. This time, I am not making a virtue out of a necessity. I am actually happy and content at the prospect of moving home ... ish.
Here, I already have a couple of prospective clients looking for my marketing, business development, and proposal / loan / grant-writing expertise.
There, I have received a couple of inquiries for upcoming proposal efforts. I have also just begun to put together a new sideline: comprehensive college-bound counseling (financing, entrance exams and essays, parent-student tussles, etc.).
Here, I will finally - a la Brian Griffin - *finally* get around to "writing that novel" that has been percolating for a while.
There, I have friends who I will be pestering to come here for ski trips, whitewater rafting, antiquing, hiking, camping, and all the other wild and wonderful pleasures WV has to offer ... while meeting my mountains-based friends.
Here, I have friends who I will be nagging to come back to DC with me to see shows, and exhibits, and go clubbing, and ... meet my city friends.
Regardless, I plan to be going barefoot a whole helluva lot more often.
: )
P.S. Time to go figure out logistics of plane fares, Amtrak, and other options for making this happen ... and looking forward to maintaining and renewing ties with friends old and new alike.
- I am delighted to get to spend so much time with my siblings, their significant others, and my nieces;
- I am thrilled to reconnect with old friends;
- You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you cannot take the mountains out of the boy; and
- Mom (*sigh*)
The logistics and precise time split between here and DC? I'm still working out the details. The most likely option is that I'll spend a couple weeks here in the mountains each month, and a couple back in the DC area. My DC-based clients are cool with my doing my writing remotely, and I can do that just as easily from here as I can from there.
Two years ago when I tried moving down here, it flat-out didn't take. Again, I plead: "Mom (*sigh*)" ...
This time, I'll have my own space. This time, it's not precipitated by and set against the backdrop of a painful break-up. This time, I am not making a virtue out of a necessity. I am actually happy and content at the prospect of moving home ... ish.
Here, I already have a couple of prospective clients looking for my marketing, business development, and proposal / loan / grant-writing expertise.
There, I have received a couple of inquiries for upcoming proposal efforts. I have also just begun to put together a new sideline: comprehensive college-bound counseling (financing, entrance exams and essays, parent-student tussles, etc.).
Here, I will finally - a la Brian Griffin - *finally* get around to "writing that novel" that has been percolating for a while.
There, I have friends who I will be pestering to come here for ski trips, whitewater rafting, antiquing, hiking, camping, and all the other wild and wonderful pleasures WV has to offer ... while meeting my mountains-based friends.
Here, I have friends who I will be nagging to come back to DC with me to see shows, and exhibits, and go clubbing, and ... meet my city friends.
Regardless, I plan to be going barefoot a whole helluva lot more often.
: )
P.S. Time to go figure out logistics of plane fares, Amtrak, and other options for making this happen ... and looking forward to maintaining and renewing ties with friends old and new alike.