Hello there.

Hi. I'm Liv. I felt like starting a blog. I am quite self-conscious about this so bear with me at first, at least until I get over myself. Like it says over on the side there, I'm a young lawyer living in upstate New York. Right now it is frigid here, has been for months, and will continue to be so for the indefinite future. It's not stir-craziness that's inspiring me to start blogging, but I do think that everything slows down quite a bit in the winter. Nothing much is going on, and everyone stays at home inside. For my husband and me, it's all about staying within a 10-foot radius of our woodstove, trying to keep warm. I have mixed feelings about the woodstove - love the cozy heat and warmth; dislike dragging logs in from outside and spending half an hour getting soot up to my elbows, trying to coax the damn thing started. It makes me appreciate the effortlessness of turning a dial to get heat, but at the same time I'm grateful not to be supporting our country's oil dependency. Yes, wood heat has plenty of environmental issues of its own. Let's not open up that can of worms.

Anyway, clearly I am a country girl because I have just spent my first blog post debating (with myself) the merits of various types of home heating systems. I'm gonna let this first post speak for itself.