For the something like twenty-three years since I stopped living with my parents, I have moved a lot. This hasn’t necessarily meant I changed jobs a lot. After all, I worked at St. John’s University in New York for eleven years. I am able to remember how long I have been married by adding one year to my oldest’s age. Here’s to hoping I can continue to remember my daughters. It seems to be getting a little harder to remember my own. With a move to Boone, North Carolina on the horizon, I’m going to try and remember the places I’ve lived since I’ve been married.

1. Megan and I started on the top floor of a tall apartment building on Church Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2. We moved to Milledgeville, Georgia for graduate school and brought our daughter home to a three bedroom apartment.
3. My second year of graduate school Megan worked as a resident director of a dorm and we lived there.
4. When I got the job in New York, we lived in a two-bedroom apartment under Hell Gate Bridge in Queens.
5. Megan and I bought our first house in Stratford, Connecticut.
6. We moved back to Queens, this time to College Point where we used to sit in the park and look across the water to LaGuardia airport and watch the planes take off.
7. We moved back to Connecticut, this time to New Canaan. It was another Church Street, this one up the street from the library.
8. We moved to an old farm house outside of New Canaan where the neighbor offered our land lady a million dollars for the place so he could make it part of his backyard.
9. Our family moved to Asheville.
10. I also rented a studio apartment in Glen Cove on Long Island. I felt like the Great Gatsby might live up the street.
11. Our family stayed another year in Asheville, and I moved from the rental to a different studio apartment, this one in Kew Gardens where the sound of the frequent trains on the Long Island Railroad woke me each morning.
12. I’m now sitting in our home in Greenwood, Indiana. It’s sold. We don’t yet know where we’re going to live in Boone.

What to make of all those moves? I don’t yet have a theory.

Kept writing past 7 minutes today. Word count: 383