Hello readers! Today’s newsletter is one that provides backstory for some planned future newsletters about identity ~ I’m trying to keep things to a manageable length and decided to break things up a bit!

Here we go, friends ~ the house story.

This is the story I used to know would gain instant attention when I told it at social gatherings and was always sure to help explain / defend why I ended up living where I do ~ in the middle of nowhere with no hope of ever getting broadband internet.