Tidbits from a Mom Weekend

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

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, [...]

Picturing a New Perspective

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

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 [...]

30 By 30

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

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 [...]

Taking Stock

Friday, June 4th, 2010

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, [...]

L’art Pour L’art

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

I’m a person prone to questioning things, prone to doubt. In fact, I question everything, including myself. It’s just the way I am, the way I’ve always been. Except where blogging is concerned.
When I began blogging nearly four years ago, I didn’t really “think it through.” I had no grand plans or ideas about content [...]

Premonitions of Entropy

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I’ve found myself doing a lot of thinking lately about relationships and commitment and happiness. In particular, I’ve been wondering if it’s possible for me to have all three at once. And the more I think about it, the more I begin to wonder if my questioning whether happiness and commitment can go hand-in-hand is [...]

Belated Memory

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

People have this unsurprising tendency to come and go from my life- how dare they! In truth, I recognize it happens to all of us. But it’s strange how all the quirks of your knowing them- all The Days That Have Meaning- go along with the person. Except that they don’t really. The memory of [...]