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So yes, as it turns out, we were going to make our decision about buying a house based on 10 minutes talking to a stranger. […]

The very night I stood on the regional rail platform at Temple and found out we’d lost the house on which we intended to make […]

We had seen three houses that left us cold on a marathon Sunday in January. We had also seen one that we loved and another that […]

Letting go was never a skill I acquired. I tend to imagine projects from planning stages through completion and if the results don’t align perfectly, […]

Right now the sea of not-quite-rights and smidge-too-expensives is wide and deep for us in East Falls. I keep waiting for a rush of certainty […]

It took us a few weeks to get over losing the storybook-like house on West Penn Street. Once we did, we behaved like anyone on […]

Somehow in the morass of a very crowded December calendar, we carved out a Sunday afternoon to go on our first official home tours with […]

Once the gnashing of teeth over the house on Vaux Street ended, we took a little time off from seriously thinking about home buying. It was October […]

We vowed to each other a long time ago that we were making our life and our home in Philadelphia, come hell or high water. […]

People who crow that life is about timing usually fill me with fury, but I have to concede that these days, timing is a very […]