Small Town Girl to City Girl to Farm Girl
By Heather Henson - October 26, 2009
I was born and raised in Kentucky, but I left when I was about 17 to go to college in NYC. I loved NYC! I already had friends and my older brother there when I moved, so I wasn't ever really alone. My first apartment was kind of in a dangerous neighborhood, way down in Alphabet City, as they call it. But I loved living there because of all the characters, and I never really felt afraid. It was actually stranger moving back to the country after living in the city for so long (17 years). I was so used to people being around me all the time in New York, it was strange to move to a house in the middle of empty fields. The first night was really scary. I was more afraid of the dark and the emptiness than I had been of the crowds and strangers. And since I'd lived in small apartments or houses in the city, I wasn't used to so many rooms. I'd hear a noise in a different part of the house and kind of freak out. My 3 year old son was the same way. It took him a while to get used to having his own room. But now we're all settled in: my son, my husband, and our twins! We have donkeys, cows, and chickens! We live in the house my mother grew up in. And I'm inspired by Kentucky, by the people and the landscape and the stories.
