Making a change

Gang,

The word is out, and now it's official, so I'm happy to share my good news: I've accepted an editing position at The Dallas Morning News. It's a great job and a big step up for me, so obviously I'm excited about it. I'm sorry to be leaving Fort Worth, but this was a good offer and it was the right time, so I'm making the change. I start there next week.

Making this choice was stressful enough, but now the real trial begins. Lori and I both will be working out of Dallas now, so after careful thought and consideration, we've decided to put our house in north Fort Worth up for sale and move over to the Dallas side of the metroplex. I know what you're both thinking -- clearly, we have a screw loose. And maybe we do. The market is atrocious and we'll be lucky to turn any profit at all on the house -- if it sells.

The funnest part of this is that we have no idea what we're doing. We're working with a Realtor and have spent the last several days whittling down the house to the bare basics to set it up for "staging," which apparently is a process where they make people want to buy your house, even though it is set up to look like a place that no one realistically would ever actually live in.

Thoughts, comments, encouragement, etc. are appreciated. Expect me to be in touch to talk job and house. I'm especially interested in the advice of one porch sitter I know who has had to sell a house before.