skirt! Magazine

LM contributor Sheilah Zimpel has an essay called, “Creating a Good Life” in the recent issue of skirt! magazine…

Our history proved that we liked to move, and we both had a bad case of wanderlust. Or, it could be as simple as what David Sedaris said—when the sex gets old, all long-married couples eventually turn to real estate. We thought it would be the good life, the simple life, and this was before Paris Hilton made a joke of it. I was a romantic, the English major to his engineer. I’d dream something up and he’d do the math, and then actually create something. I was ready to live off the land, live cheaply, forget the inside-the-beltline values (forget that I’d never gardened in my life). I had delusions of romance with nature, so I traded my Lexus for a Jeep Wrangler.