The story of my little parasite friend continues and hopefully has reached its final conclusion. Who came out on top?

2020 has been a weird year. We all learned lessons, whether we wanted to or not. I learned that I was taking my good health for granted… and that home is where you make it even if it’s not where you expected it to be.

Some mornings we wake to our ‘to do’ lists and feel overwhelmed. The news on the morning radio is disheartening and depressing. The skies outside the window settle low and heavy. One of us will look at the other.

“Cabin day?”

“Damn straight.”

We knew that one of the major changes we needed was a deeper connection with nature. And so in a span of a month we not only put our suburban home on the market, we sold it and moved out….

My new home is an old, rotting trailer in a half-empty subdivision beside a dying lake. My eyeglasses are held together with hockey tape. I wear Home Hardware padded plaid coats and leisure-wear pants. Despite waves of pandemic-induced anxiety, I feel a potential for happiness that I haven’t felt in years.