Do I need a wedding cake? Only if I find a delicious baker. Should I include a garter toss? Naw, it’s not my favorite. Are we going to smash cake into each other’s face? Not with that historical context. I shun status quo and I am a nerd. Even (especially?) on my wedding day, I…
Christmas marks the beginning of the end. After such a season of anticipation and joy, now it’s time to reflect on the past year while preparing for a new year on its way. Last Christmas, we had just barely met niece Olive, we were waiting to meet nephew Jesse, were on the cusp of letting the world…
Dear World, My name is Ducky. At least, thats what they tell me. Jennifer & John tried to change my name after adopting me, but the other chosen options just wouldnt suit. So here I am. Still Ducky. (Jennifer says she needs to get a duck and name it Kitty, just to make it balance…
We were less than halfway into our bike ride. Just past the bike-ride-glee and well before the bike-ride-pain. Along the path came jogging a 65ish-year-old man in his matching running suit (you know the kind — elastic at the ankles, wrists, and waist . . . a strip all the way down each side ….
When the day is unseasonably sunny and fully of happy, fluffy, cotton ball clouds instead the normal low, gray, heavy clouds, there’s not much to do but GO OUTSIDE! When the day is so sun-filled, it requires sunglasses? You put ’em on with glee and GO OUTSIDE! When a magical little corner of the moss-covered,…
He gave the man a little information, answered a few questions, signed a piece of paper, picked a pin number, and then [drumroll] handed the card to me. My library card. Well, HIS library card. I can’t get one until after all the paperwork finishes its season in the bureaucratic minefield and declares it acceptable…
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