by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | for Money
Some people are just more talented than others. And that goes for bloggers as well. Some of us (ahem) write about things we love and things we hate and things that make our hair stand on end and things we are passionate about. And we use stock photos or marginally...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | for Home
As the snow finally begins to blow in Utah—we were all beginning to think winter would just pass us by this year—I am reminded of one of the best things about living in a place with seasons. A good hard winter freeze does wonders for keeping bugs at bay. Growing up in...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | for Fun, for Home
If you are a fellow American, “letting a flat” might sound like gibberish. Or needing replacement tires. But it's very simple. In British parlance letting is renting and a flat is an apartment. When we lived in England in 1983, we let a flat in a row of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | for Body
I shouldn't be writing about eyeglasses. Really. I told you I finally went to the eye doctor…for the first time since we moved back to Utah (in 2001). And, yes, I ordered my prescription reading glasses. But I still haven't picked them up. And now the eye doctor is...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 22, 2012 | for Fun
When I was 19, my dad took a sabbatical form his professorial duties and he and my mother headed to Europe. The final destination was to be a flat in Leeds, England, but before that would be a whirlwind tour of Germany (where they would pick up a VW Jetta (with...