World AIDS Day

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. Instead of re-writing her thoughts, I think I’ll share an email from my friend CarylMay (with my edits):
Today is World AIDS Day. Take a moment to think/pray for the millions of men, women, and children around the world who have or are impacted by HIV and AIDS.
 
Here are [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Advent

Made up or not, these two celebrations are highlights of my year, and especially highlights of the dreary November/December months in the Northwest.  They also both serve to remind me of some basic fundamental values that I hope to hold, but don’t always act out: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul [...]

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The November Blues

So far, November has not been much of a blog-worthy month (with a few exceptions).  I am dragging, burning the candle at both ends, tuckered out, hitting the wall….and the list of figurative phrases goes on. 
In the last two weeks I’ve been fighting a bad chest cold, struggling to get my school work done and [...]

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Work Life Balance

Life has been a little off balance lately.  Aaron and I both are measuring time by weeks in the quarter (it’s week 5 of 11, so we’re just about half way done).  I’m working too much, taking too many classes, and spending a lot of time at my internship.  Aaron’ s working hard at both his [...]

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In Other News…

Ethan and Jessica are engaged!  We’re looking forward to coming home this summer for the wedding

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The Happiest Place on Earth

This past weekend I celebrated my (28th!) birthday in the happiest place on earth.  While I’ve got plenty of gripes regarding Disney, I must admit that it was a pretty happy place.  “It’s a small world after all” and Space Mountain, and Mickey, and the fireworks, and the parade, and the music….I totally loved it and [...]

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Jessie and Ryan Visit…..Now Back to Reality

This past week we hosted Jessie and Ryan Ridgely (our friends from the year we lived in Westminster MD).  It was their first time out to Seattle and they got some amazing weather.  It’s been August weather all September long, which is great since I was so sad we missed so much of the Northwest [...]

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Alex Visits

Last week we hosted our dear (old) friend Alex Kwon for a few days.  Alex has been M.I.A. for the last couple years while he’s been at American for Law School.  He took the Bar about a month ago, and decided to visit us as part of his attempt to relax, get his mind back [...]

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Urban Blackberry Pickers

I heard this story and laughed out loud. 
My two favorite quotes:
“There’s something about urban berry-picking that appeals to the northwestern soul – with a little taste of life off the grid on your way to Starbucks, free dessert on a street where parking meters charge two bucks an hour.”  and..
“And in these economic times, there’s [...]

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Visiting with the Wights and Grace

A few days into last week we got a phone call from my cousin Alan, who was cycling across the country from Bass Harbor, Maine to Vancouver, British Columbia.  He and his girlfriend Grace were supposed to arrive the third week of August, but he called to let me know they were about two weeks [...]

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