Blog | mulliganstreet

Well ...

It’s over. That terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year is history, Alexander. A new year has dawned. Hope for a better future grows....

Susan Byers

Jan 16, 20216 min read

Lemonade

It has been a month. Our campground is a 30 minute drive from our house, and every day since we closed, we drove to and from the camper,...

Susan Byers

Nov 11, 20204 min read

Endings & Beginnings

Fall is finally coming to Upstate New York. A couple of nights ago, the temperatures finally dipped into the 40s. We awoke to thick fog...

Susan Byers

Sep 18, 20204 min read

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Greetings from the beautiful Berkshires in western Massachusetts. We are ensconced at Peppermint Park, half an hour from civilization...

Susan Byers

Aug 6, 20205 min read

Pastorale

pas·to·rale/ˌpastəˈräl,ˌpastəˈral/ noun noun: pastorale; plural noun: pastorales; plural noun: pastorali MUSIC a slow instrumental...

Susan Byers

May 26, 20202 min read

Marking and Making

As you know, we are hunkering, waiting out the virus, a few miles outside Floyd, Virginia. We will be in this campground until mid-June,...

Susan Byers

May 1, 20204 min read

Silver Linings

EASTER SUNDAY, HARRISONBURG, VA "It never rains, but it pours." Yes, another of my mother's oft-used expressions, but like most clichés,...

Susan Byers

Apr 13, 20204 min read

Think of a Cow in a Green Pasture

Thursday, April 10 "Think of a cow in a green pasture," my mother would always say when we were stressed. Today, her words came back to...

Susan Byers

Apr 10, 20205 min read

Hunkering

Wow, how life has changed. A couple of weeks ago, we came back to the DC area so I could have shoulder replacement surgery. My sister...

Susan Byers

Mar 20, 20203 min read

Ruminations on a Winter Landscape

As we drove north toward Philadelphia the other day, descending out of the Virginia highlands, I found myself thinking about the beauty...

Susan Byers

Mar 6, 20202 min read

Magnolia!

Our second stop in Texas was Waco, to visit The Silos, the downtown multi-use destination owned by Chip and Joanna Gaines and made famous...

Susan Byers

Feb 27, 20203 min read

But Wait, There's More!

How could I have left Austin and not talked about two of the most remarkable places we visited?! Goodness ... Well, before we head to...

Susan Byers

Feb 23, 20204 min read

Deep in the Heart of ... You Guessed It!

We just finished a whirlwind tour of Austin, Waco and Grapevine, Texas, just outside Dallas. Stops in Austin and Dallas were primarily to...

Susan Byers

Feb 17, 20203 min read

N'Awlins, Y'all!

There is much to love about New Orleans. There is the juxtaposition of old and new, antique iron lace, stucco and brick against a...

Susan Byers

Feb 1, 20206 min read

Hot Hot Hot

After four days of driving (we try to limit drive time to four hours a day out of deference to the cats and old joints), we are in...

Susan Byers

Jan 17, 20204 min read

Sometimes, You Have to Get Creative ...

"But where will the kids come for Christmas?" my sister asked me. We were still working toward moving into the camper full time, and we...

Susan Byers

Dec 30, 20195 min read

Diary of a Rainy Day

Why does it always feel colder when it rains? We woke up to a hovering gray sky, and shortly after we walked the dogs, it started to...

Susan Byers

Dec 10, 20192 min read

Insanity

Before our house of 25 years ever made it to market, we had an offer from a young Air Force officer and his wife (we're calling them Jack...

Susan Byers

Dec 6, 20195 min read

Gift Horse

I have sadly neglected this blog for the last year, while we worked on the camper and the house and moving our lives into storage and oh...

Susan Byers

Oct 28, 20194 min read

Disappearing Act

I know. I disappeared. For almost a year. But when the contractor shows up and you are desperately trying to stay one step ahead of...

Susan Byers

Apr 24, 20193 min read

Mulligan Street

Where second chances are a way of life

Well ...

Lemonade

Endings & Beginnings

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Pastorale

Marking and Making

Silver Linings

Think of a Cow in a Green Pasture

Hunkering

Ruminations on a Winter Landscape

Magnolia!

But Wait, There's More!

Deep in the Heart of ... You Guessed It!

N'Awlins, Y'all!

Hot Hot Hot

Sometimes, You Have to Get Creative ...

Diary of a Rainy Day

Insanity

Gift Horse

Disappearing Act

Blogs I Follow - and

You Might Like