Hello everyone... I am Heidi and I just moved back to the beautiful Hudson Valley in upstate New York. I do not know the story behind my first name, but my middle name was my grandmother's name: Winifred! I used to be a die hard coffee drinker until I realized it was giving me an afternoon brain fog! I still have it occasionally, making sure I eat something first but my morning beverage of choice now is a spiced tea which I love! (this coming from a non tea drinker) Favorite movie is too hard, but I do love romcom's and adventure comedies! I have been on Skool for 3 years! And just lost my flame for the first time in over 2.5 years! yikes What brought me to Clearwater... Cate and the description of her wookbook!

I would like to welcome our latest arrivals in the Village: @Carolina Henao @Cheryle Richards @Kimberly Armatys @Kristin Gyurkovits @Tara Dirks @Heidi Reagan Ladies, please feel free to introduce yourselves and if you're not sure what to say, maybe tell us: - your name and city/country - if you know it, the story behind your name - and your beverage(s) of choice! Yes I believe you can have more than one, after all for me it depends on what time of day it is! - Also maybe your favourite movie, or theatre production - how long you've been on Skool - and what brought you to Clearwater Village. And ladies, let's help them settle in, so everyone feel free to share any or all of the above too! Ciao for now.

On our journey of life we accumulate 'things' - be they necessities (like that coffee cup you love!), or memorabilia (like the gift that really hit the mark and reminds you of someone special), or simply useful items you use every day, or would if you were stationary and not nomadic. In the last 16 years I've been through many downsizing moves as the kids have slowly spread their wings and taken off on their own journeys. The last downsizing was when I left Australia in 2019 to work in Japan for 20 months. Well we all know what happened in 2020, and so shifted everything for me. By January 2021 I became someone with a storage unit! And almost all my worldly possessions (packed by others in my apartment in Tokyo and shipped back while I moved to the UK) went into storage, where they've been ever since! And the other things? Left with daughter? Well she also ended up moving to UK, and so it went into storage too. So to shorten this saga, I'm currently culling - emptied the 2nd storage unit yesterday and now understand why she didn't 'dump' it all - it's books, photos, crystalware, full dinner set, cantina of silver cutlery, precious photo frames and gifts. How do you cull this stuff? Have you ever had to do this? Were you able to get rid of the beautiful handmade 'Fairy Godmother' doll given to you by a friend you'd had for years on the other side of the world and who passed before you had the chance to actually meet, even through video because we didn't have that ability back then? Yes, I'm a hopeless sentimental! But I want to know how you might have managed it, culled those items?