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John and Billie Ross are the owners and editors of the blog, Forward Our Mail. Together they have crafted a unique and dynamic {semi-nomadic} lifestyle -frequently moving to a new city, region, or finding a new town to call home.

Each move presents one-of-a-kind opportunities to meet new people, explore new hobbies, and seek out new experiences. As they learn from each relocation they will inspire you to discover home, simplify life, and experience.

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  • Simply love people and make them feel seen – even if it’s just for a moment. Offer tangible gifts of your time and your compassion. And never underestimate the power of your presence.
    Billie Ross, The Simple Art of Caring for Others.
  • There is something intrinsically satisfying about being a homemaker. Seeing progress in your children’s school work, teaching them basic skills like laundry, cooking, and cleaning, being a supportive spouse – all of these things are an enormous blessing to the family. 
    Billie Ross, Confessions of a Happy homemaker.
  • In order for hope to flourish, we have to let perfectionism die. There’s not room for both. They cannot co-exist side by side. One is in direct contrast with the other.
    billie ross, regarding hope
  • A trip to England and a box of second-hand china together weaved a pathway into my heart that I can’t unwind. Together, they taught me that being alive is a special occasion.
    billie ross, being alive is a special occasion
  • When home becomes a love story it contains all the little intimacies of life; the records we play, the goodies we bake, the books we read, the blanket we snuggle beneath. It becomes the whole story of all the moments carefully pieced together like a time-worn quilt that we stitched with loving hands.
    Billie Ross, When Home Becomes a Love Story
  • is knowing that no matter where you go, what you take with you, or what you leave behind, you’ve learned how to recreate it again and again. Because it’s the rhythms and rhymes of life that make home, home. It isn’t always perfect, but it always perfectly yours!
    Billie Ross, What home Is
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