Christmas at Grandma’s
I have arrived in Israel and my official duties begin in less than two hours, meaning that my vacation is about to end. No guarantee of any more real-time blogging, okay? With just 30 hours in Tel Aviv (and hopefully a majority of that sleeping), time to explore is minimal but delightful. My flight…
It had been a short ride, an easy one. We had only enough time to push the bike onto the ferry with all seven of the load’s cars, pay our fare, and breathe the salt filled waves before we were docking on the other side of the crossing. It was a ferry ride to an…
Our two week roadtrip honeymoon was one of the most fabulous adventures imaginable (and the most pragmatic, since we had to get my car from North Carolina to British Columbia anyway!) so when we decided to take another roadtrip (in fewer days and with more kilometers!), it seemed risky to try to recreate the fun…
Guys! Canadaland is SO MUCH BIGGER than this little tiny thumbprint section I claim as my own. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No duh. But for all my criss-cross-apple-sauce of the continent, I’ve only ever been in one Canadian airport: Vancouver. I’ve driven into Alberta, yes, and poked my head into Ontario 15 years ago, but all…
As much as I adore the engagement and wedding ring that John chose for me (the most vivid memory I have of the whirlwind surprise proposal is how he described the ring his chose as “uniquely simple and beautiful…just like you”), I almost love my Groove Life rings more. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying I…
My family is the coolest family in the whole wide world. Seriously. Hands down. No doubt. We are so cool we even have a facebook group for the cousins (does that make us cool? Or does it make us dorks? Dunno.). But, see, with a heritage like we have, there’s really no way we can…