I don’t know about you, but when I find myself with more free time than I thought I had, it’s awesome. It’s like skipping class in college combined with finding free food at any point in my life. Or at any point in my life that involved paying for my own food. So the past…
Open Door Policy
When I moved away after high school, my best friend’s parents gave me a key to their house. It was kind of a joke, kind of a symbol to tell me that I was welcome to visit any time. The joke part comes in because they never locked their door. Having a key was really…
Grown-up Christmas List
I haven’t forgotten to tell stories about Thanksgiving, I’m just making a brief detour to the topic of Christmas. Part of the weekend conversation did revolve around Christmas shopping and getting ready for the season. Black Friday happened. I thankfully went to the mountains instead of the mall. Whew, another shopping stampede avoided. Do you…
Weekend Decompression
Okay, it was a big weekend. For one thing, it was four and a half days long. For another, it involved meeting lots of new (to me) people and going to lots of new (to me) places. “Good” would be an understatement for the weekend as a whole, but I haven’t had a chance to…
Happy!!
Thanksgiving!!! If you haven’t jumped in a pile of leaves yet this year, I suggest that you change that immediately. Just stay away from the leaves in my yard. I have a dog. It’s for your own good, I promise.
Packing Light
For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to pack light for a weekend trip. Tell me that I’m moving to a foreign country for six months, and I can cram everything I need into two suitcases including sheets and towels and books and well, everything. Tell me that I’m going a couple…
One Little Tradition
Thanksgiving is usually a holiday that I skip over to get to what’s next (read: Christmas). But somewhere in the archives of my brain, I forgot about one Thanksgiving tradition that my family did maintain pretty carefully over the years. It slipped my mind because it isn’t technically a Thanksgiving tradition in my family. It…
Small, but valuable. 