I thought I should get the “talk to people on the airplane” goal out of the way in the first half of the trip so I would have the option of being totally anti-social on the way home. I wasn’t feeling particularly chatty for the first flight though, since it involved waking up at 3:30 after…
Category: Travel
Airplane Windows
There were few things that made my seven-year-old heart fill up with glee like the view from an airplane window. There are so many good things about that. You can see the layout of the world from there. You can count baseball fields and swimming pools in the city, or you can see farmland patterns…
Vacation Goals
I’m leaving on a jet plane on Saturday morning (can you hear John Denver in the background?), which makes me happy. I really like airports and the whole flying process, not to mention the vacation that goes with the flying. I even like some good, old-fashioned turbulence. In order to get the most out of…
Predictable
Some people worry about what other people would find in their closets or drawers if they died suddenly, and I worry about what books people would find on my shelves. Why does a grown woman own all four of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books?! That threat of potential embarrassment is what keeps me…
Long Drives, Weddings, and Other Things
Okay, I’m back from my giant vacation, also known as 3 days off. Unfortunately for you, there were about a trillion small things going through my head on the trip. I’ll try to keep the random thoughts to a minimum. The one-sentence summary is that mountains and corn fields still make me happy, I still…
Inheritance
My grandmother loved to hoard. Her closets were bursting with shoes that didn’t quite fit, clothes that her children wore 40 years ago, and things that she hadn’t thought about in 20 years. I’m not proud of this, but I’ve often been smug about not sharing that trait with her. I like to use things…
Small, but valuable. 