My Journey

My California home is finally in escrow. Selling my home fragrance-free was harder than I expected. I found a fragrance-free realtor who was willing to show my home on an appointment only basis, without open houses. He asked people coming into the house not to wear fragrance, but only one of the first four people […]

This is the site of my future home in Poulsbo. The blurry-faced man gives you an idea of the size of the trees, and if you peer closely through the trees you can see the Olympic Mountains. I can’t believe how lucky I was to find this property. For a chemically sensitive person, it is

Sunset at low tide on Venice Beach. There is a lot to love about Venice but it has been harder to enjoy sunsets since I learned that pollution can intensify the red tones. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-smog-creates-beautiful-sunsets/ I have been back in CA for ten days now. My nose is once again so dry that breathing burns. My

This photo was taken at Jumpoff Joe Creek and waterfall in Grants Pass, OR. I am heading back to CA several weeks sooner than expected. I have a vacant lot in Poulsbo in escrow, and I have hired an architect who is excited by the challenge of designing a zero-VOC home. I am astonished by

I take Lucy for a walk each day and she is enthusiastic about exploring this area. When I was in Hansville I considered letting her visit with the ducks on the shore. But then I remembered why she’s a pet. I found Lucy 16+ years ago with her wing dragging on the ground. When her

This week I took Hansville off my list of possible new homes. The air quality is very good (39 ppm of airborne pollutants related to cancer) but there is nothing there. It is a little bit too remote, even for a chemically sensitive person. And, I may not need to be as isolated as I

Night sky over Poulsbo, which is starting to feel like my new home.

Lucy went for her first ferry boat ride today. Yesterday she saw horses for the first time. Ewan continues to complain, and I am stressed finding a new home, but Lucy is interested in everything. We took the ferry to Vashon Island, which was high on my list of possible places to live. But there

This is the home of the chemically sensitive woman from whom I am renting a room while in WA. It helps enormously to know I have a safe home base to which I can return each night. And, since I left California I am finding it easier to breathe already. Lucy likes this nearby property,

This is a photo of sunrise at Kitsap Memorial State Park. I arrived last night, having suffered only two minor fragrance exposures in 1300+ miles. Whoo-hoo! I did have a problem when I spent several hours in a pine forest near San Rafael and developed a massive congestion headache. It’s been so long since I’ve