When confronted with aghast statements by incredulous friends and relatives who have heard about our plans to retire and move, yes, from the west coast to the far northern prairie, my husband is fond of responding – “We’re Reverse Snowbirds!”  And so, it seems we are attempting to do and be just that and the journey, in the words of Little Red Riding Hood in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” is an apt description of my state of being – in other words “excited AND scared”!

And so I begin.