Category Archives: house

Cuddling Up With Winter

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Julia Bloom

It’s dang cold. Butt-cold, Nathan calls it. Solid weeks of never climbing beyond single-digit degrees Fahrenheit here in icy Saint Paul. But over my many years surviving Minnesota winters, I’ve learned a thing or two and thought I’d share some … Continue reading →

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The Mortgage Monster

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Julia Bloom

Yesterday our family spent three hours building this: (The Lego monstrosity, I mean, not the other sculpture – that’s a Tenyoh creation. And while we’re at it, the painting is a Micah Bloom original.) Now I think this is a … Continue reading →

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Best Seats in the House

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Julia Bloom

Last year we moved from a big old Victorian house in Minnesota to a roughly-thousand-square-foot bungalow we rented in our new town of Loveland, Colorado. Downsizing our stuff for the move was an adventure and a delight. Living very comfortably in a … Continue reading →

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