Taters "In the Soup"

The most joyous and depressing event of our recent memory was our Farewell to Boise party, held on a beautiful late summer evening at the Idaho Shakespeare. Joyous, because a great many good friends arrived to send us off; depressing, because we must leave behind those friends who have made our lives immeasurably richer.

When we were younger - much younger - we'd have endeavored to stay in touch with those friends and family by writing letters. In fact, we enjoyed writing and and looked forward to receiving letters from our family and friends who lived elsewhere or were travelling. Those days appear to be over; the upside to the loss of intimacy and tactile satisfaction of opening and reading a letter written "by hand" is that a blog post can address many recipients simultaneously. Technological efficiency at its finest.

Welcome, then, to the rather inauspicious inaugural post of Taters "In the Soup", an online receptical for our ramblings and, in its finer moments, a resource for family and friends to track Kenn Lamson and Tina Funkhouser (aka, the Taters) through our adventures in relocating from Idaho and establishing a life on the East Coast (aka, "the soup".)

To be clear, our blog shouldn't be considered a rant against the ways of our new neighbors, but rather a hopefully thoughtful and occasionally humorous comparison, for the benefit of ourselves and our friends in the mountain west, of what we experience here versus Boise.