Spirals
When I was growing up, I remember telling my parents that I wanted to own a bakery. Now, it’s important to note that at this time in my life I did not know a thing about baking, much less did…
Category Life
28 Things I Learned at 28
I turn 29 tomorrow. While I’m not freaking out about it, I’ve been aware of a subtle shift in my attitude and mindset. There’s an undercurrent of “I’m an adult now” in almost everything I do. I’m at that age…
Ten Years
Ten years ago, I graduated high school, joined Facebook and met a few people who have since become lifelong friends. On more than one occasion, I’ve stopped and said to those friends, “We’ve known each other for a DECADE!” Isn’t…
quiet time.
Things have been quiet here on my blog for awhile now. There are several contributing factors, with two tied for first place: planning a wedding and not really laying out a plan for this blog before I started. You know…
Basil.
Kevin and I have a massive basil plant in the front yard. When we planted it back in June, I was just hoping to keep it alive since North Carolina was already in the middle of a super hot summer.…
Opinion Piece.
My roommate has the ability to be incredibly creative while simultaneously being incredibly intelligent. She demonstrates this most frequently on her own blog, where she writes a post based around a word and its definition. Instead of “nerdy living” she…
The One with the Financial Fast
When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it’s not, and I need to do it again. – Rebecca Bloomberg, Confessions of a Shopaholic For the past few years, my sister and I…
The One with the Floppy Hat
This story involves a floppy white hat. Not the floppy hat that you monogram for your honeymoon vacation – the fisherman, Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island, kind of floppy hat. Got a good picture of it in your mind? Great! Now,…
The One with the Introduction
Writing has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. I call it a guilty pleasure because it is something I keep oddly personal. I keep notes and quotes tucked away in the 4 notebooks I have going right now. I…
Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels
I had several people ask for a copy of the eulogy I read at Papa’s funeral yesterday…so just in case you wanted to read it. ———— When Abby and I were talking about what I was going to say, she…