ROCHELLE RILEY: Days without cable bring comfort, quiet - 2004-01-07
There's something about moving to a new place that makes you take stock of your life. It makes you really consider what needs to be taken from one place to another and what you can throw away.
It makes you focus on what you truly need to be happy.
And while on this topic, I found at least a half-dozen Christmas presents I'd bought for my daughter during the year and hid away from her, only to hide them even more effectively from myself.
But of all the discoveries, the most wonderful one was the level of comfort I found with my daughter, one that didn't require background noise. We read or played poker or giggled in our own temporary viewing blackout.
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