The Hard Work of Moving Forward and Moving

Greg Stitz
3 min readDec 8, 2022

I used to enjoy moving. Leah and I moved A LOT during our marriage. We didn’t have children, so we had the freedom of choice. We were also lucky enough to have several moves paid for by her different employers, or at least offset by tax deductions because the moves were work-related. It also helped that, at least in the early days, we didn’t own much, so moving wasn’t a huge deal. In addition, there was often the excitement of moving to a new town, starting new jobs, decorating a new home to offset the chaos and downright drudgery of packing and unpacking. We moved from central…

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Greg Stitz

Widower; former USNR Petty Officer/Commissioned Officer [(Gunner's Mate (Guns) First Class]; former 9-1-1 dispatcher; former museum curator; merchant mariner