That didn't sound expensive, but it did sound a little urgent.
They were words we've been waiting to hear for an embarrassingly long time -- four and a half years -- as one project begat another inside a 100-plus-year-old house we bought in Hillcrest. He was finally done.
I wasn't exactly certain if there was an underlying meaning to his plea. Like, "Please come and enjoy this finished product that I've been working so hard on and whatever you do, don't flip it or sell it without giving it a whirl." But point taken, it was time to stop talking about moving from Pine Bluff to Little Rock and get ourselves moved.
It almost didn't happen.
Our friends were one of the first gay couples in Arkansas to get married. They settled into Little Rock but just never felt welcomed. So they began looking around the country for more inviting environs and settled on Northampton, Massachusetts. We drove a second car up there for them and stayed a week and almost didn't come back, knowing that our reddening state was only going to get redder. If the urge by many is to move to Canada, we were awfully close. But the timing wasn't quite right or maybe it was our resolve that wasn't quite stiff...
Source: https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/05/14/the-observer-trades-pine-bluff-for-little-rock
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