I’ve been craving Hamilton. Weird, right? Craving a musical. I watched the film version a couple of years ago and fell in love. I cringed at the thought of spending two-plus hours in front of a screen watching something I’ve already seen but this past weekend, while driving back to Live Oak from Miami, I listened to the soundtrack. I listened, I laughed, I cried, and I was in awe. I won’t pretend to know why Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to write that story. Maybe he wanted to s

A year after purchasing our project (a CBS house with all rough inspections passed and about 80% complete), I got the idea that we needed to move, sooner rather than later, if we wanted the project to move along toward completion at a more steady pace. 400-mile weekend trips to spend a single day working on a project, which we never had enough time to finish, was exhausting and inefficient. Worst of all, halfway through 2021, I got the sense that there was a lot I wasn't doin