SherylP's Profile

Our neighbors have a spare (and we have theirs), as well as some friends that live about 5 blocks from us. We also keep a key hidden in the neighbor's yard, and they in ours.

None of my family members in my parents generation live in the same home as when I was growing up. Actually, my grandparents were the last ones to leave the home they spent their married life in, and raised their children in. It's sad not having that tie to my childhood.

I've been in my house 8 years; I live within 2-3 easy miles of the homes of the two prior generations in my family--the homes of my childhood. Maybe still being in the same part of town (or even neighborhood) makes it feel even stranger not to be able to drop by and say hello.

@tmoore, the photographer is Tricia McKellar. She sells as "eyeful" on Etsy. I've got several of her bird prints, in Ribba frames, hanging in my bedroom.