David McElroy

If it seems to you that things suddenly look radically different around here, you’re right.

My site is under construction in the coming days. Maybe weeks. Some things will continue working. Some might not work as expected for awhile. Please bear with me.

This switch has been in the works for months and there’s still a lot of work to be done. The theme I’ve been using for seven years has served its purpose very well. I actually still like it a lot. But because it wasn’t designed for mobile devices — and the developer of the old theme isn’t still around to update it — I was forced to move to something new.

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Lucy and I just got finished walking a couple of miles in our neighborhood. It’s a beautiful night — unseasonably warm at 69 degrees and strong winds that hint of the storms heading our way Thursday.

Next month will complete my fourth year in this neighborhood. As I walked tonight, I found myself thinking about my first reaction to this place. At the time, I was in a serious financial crisis and I was losing the home where I had lived for 20 years. It was a much nicer place in a much more prestigious neighborhood.

When I first drove by this house to check it out, I turned up my nose at it. Surely, I was too good for this sort of neighborhood.

That’s not what I actually said to myself, of course, but that’s what I really meant. And as I walked through this working class neighborhood a few minutes ago — a stone’s throw from the high school baseball game from which I could hear cheering — I found myself remembering my silent judgment of another man’s home 20 years ago.

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