My mom came to visit over the weekend, which is typically a delightful girly time wherein we do fancy things like get mango margaritas down the street, go for long walks, and make a fun dinner or two that enables me to bust out my cheese platter and cheese knives, colander, and spice rack. BUT, [...]
Maybe nothing lasts- my twenties, my vacation, maybe even my relationship. Maybe one-by-one each will melt away like the glaciers we saw. But, for a moment at least, I shared a place and created memories that will never go away. No matter what comes, I’ll always be able to look back and say “remember when,” [...]
Before I write about the trip to Seattle and Alaska, before I share select pictures from our cruise and excursions and marketplace shenanigans; I feel compelled to confess an odd bit of sadness that I am feeling.
There is of course the typical and to be expected mourning that the “trip of a lifetime,” which went [...]
Taking significant time away last week from work, blogging, Twitter, and all things Blackberry resulted in a lot of self-reflection. I don’t really know what becoming “30″ means or how that’s supposed to change me…poof! You’re a grown up? But what I do know, trite as it may be, is that I’ve learned a lot along the way.
Friendship [...]
Tomorrow, I turn 30. 3-0. As in the age that I thought at the beginning of my twenties I’d be married and be done having all the kids I planned to have. Beyond that I hadn’t invested much thought. It was my small town mentality at work, my “worldview” as you could call it. And, [...]
