What have I been overlooking?

I stopped by to visit some friends last week, who live in a spiritual community. It was fairly chilly inside their tiny space (which was set apart from the main house) but they all had on warm sweaters and said that they'd be turning the central heat on around Thanksgiving. Until then, they'd use space…

The question that stops us

Jack and I are leaving for Maine this morning. I have taken a lot of virtual tours of homes in Maine over the past month, and now we are going to do drive-bys of the actual houses. We know what we want in a home; age, size, location, neighborhood, yard. We just have no idea…