This blog was inspired by living through two disasters: Hurricane Harvey in August of 2017, and the COVID epidemic—still, of course, ongoing. Harvey destroyed my family’s house by Braes Bayou in Houston, TX. This coincided with our sons leaving home, and after a long and stressful period of dealing with moldy belongings, a ravaged property, an unusually understanding insurance agent, dozens of online forms that did not work properly, and a strange feeling of placelessness, my husband and I bought another house and began a period of empty nesting. That nest is now full.