So Here's the Scoop

To all those who have accidentally come across this blog (which is how you would probably HAVE to find it this early in the game)...welcome.

This is the very beginning of my journey. As I write these words, my family and I are still in Oklahoma, our house in utter disarray, preparing rather frantically to make our trip home--to our new home in Denver. We have less than three weeks.

We've lived in Oklahoma for ten years, and thought we'd be here for life. We've accumulated quite a bit of stuff, settled in a nice house, done all the things to make a life for ourselves here. I won't go into all the reasons why we're leaving--this is not a blog about Oklahoma. But when we began thinking about making a change in our lives, and considered where to move--Denver stood out head and shoulders above any other place we considered.

We're a family of three, with no prior connection to the city. We've made some friends in our visits there, but we're not coming because of friends, or family, or job. We're coming because Denver is beautiful, alive, awake.

No, really. I'm not being dramatic. That's why we're coming.

Up until a few days ago, we honestly didn't know how we were going to make this move. We don't have lots of money saved up. I have a gig or two lined up, but no real job offers. But things here are drying up fast, and last week when we were up in Denver, we figured out a way to come. So we're coming--it's that simple.

It's a dramatic change, in every sense of the word. We currently live in a house on the outskirts of Tulsa, practically in the country; we're moving to a small flat in an eclectic area where you can walk to almost everything. From three bedrooms, two-car garage and fenced yard to a two-bedroom apartment with less than half the square footage. From country french decor to modern chic.

We thought once we found a place, we'd have a couple of months to get ready. We have less than three weeks.

We thought we'd get a place about the same size as we have now, or a little smaller. Now we're unpacking boxes that were already packed, and selling nearly everything just to squeeze in.

From Bible-belt to artsy-urban-Bohemian. That's change. Obama would be proud.

So I was thinking in my mind (which is where I do most of my thinking)...why not blog about this? Why not document the move, and blog for a year or so about my new city, cool things I find, places I go, stuff I do--all that jazz?

So that's what you've stumbled upon accidentally--as no doubt that's how you got here. Welcome. Hope you'll stick around. You'll learn more about me and the fam as we go along...and hopefully you'll get a feel of what a great town like Denver is like, through the eyes of a newbie.

That would be me.