Tuesday, Aug 26 2008
Staking claim to a perfectly-sized resting place. Being hot to the touch. Keeping legs unshaved. Sleeping guiltlessly without any worry for what should have gotten done today. She is on to something.
Categories: Cats, Daily Grind -- Tags: AbbyWednesday, Aug 20 2008
Last month my husband and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. When I sat down an hour before our dinner date to write out a card for him, I had wished that I would have written the note a couple days earlier when I was in more of an appreciative, lovey dovey mood rather [...]
Categories: Marriage -- Tags: Brian, Michelle, WeddingMonday, Aug 18 2008
Last year my mom and I worked on a photobook project and, as a result, had spent hours and hours looking through boxes of childhood memories – pictures, report cards, class projects – that were anything from hilarious to sentimental to cute to outright pathetic. We had a good laugh at my brothers’ and my [...]
Categories: Childhood -- Tags: MichelleThursday, Aug 14 2008
It is impossible to watch the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing without evoking a sense of nostalgia for my Olympic experience over a decade ago. As college sophomores, three of my girlfriends and I worked as security guards at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. Yes, security guards. Not so much the [...]
Categories: Special Event -- Tags: Family, Friends, Michelle, OlympicsTuesday, Aug 12 2008
The last weekend of June my family and I traveled to Idaho/Washington for a Cousins Reunion. My mother was looking forward to sleeping in her first morning in Seattle after a long, exhausting day of travel from Ohio to the West coast with my step-dad and grandmother, both in their 80s. Mama did not get [...]
Categories: Blog, Travel -- Tags: Family, Michelle