Posted in Memories, Reflections on Jan 1st, 2006
Flashback: December 31, 2002. We were leisurely dining out with friends, feasting on wings and curly fries, with the intention of going back to our friends’ home afterward to ring in the new year. But Noah is full of surprises, and he had other plans. The sporadic contractions I had been having began to grow […]
My parents sold my childhood home last year when my dad retired, and built a new house near us that they have finally moved into. It’s gorgeous. Simply beautiful, and state of the art. I dream of some day having such a home for my family. But… We slept over there for the first time […]
“Crinkle, crinkle, shwoooop,” said the vacuum cleaner. “What was that?” asked my mom, who heard the unmistakable sound of a candy wrapper being sucked into oblivion from clear across the house. “Uh oh,” thought Aunt Marge*. Poor Aunt Marge. It wasn’t her fault. She was only trying to help. Little did she know, that single […]
Posted in Memories on Oct 19th, 2005
A comment from Jamie Dawn on one of my posts last week got me thinking (whoa, that’s dangerous!) about traditions and how they come about. In my family, we’ve never started traditions on purpose. They just kind of evolve. We do something once just because, then repeat at some later date under similar circumstances, and […]
Posted in Memories on Oct 12th, 2005
The town I grew up in has grown up itself over the years, but when I was young, it wasn’t much more than a small retirement community. A boring existence for a kid, to be sure. I mean really, pity the poor people who lived in a place that didn’t even have a shopping mall […]
Posted in Friends, Funny Stuff, Memories on Sep 24th, 2005
I did resolve to begin telling some college stories here, so I’ll start with a fun one. Spring Break 1990. Ah, what an adventure! I and six of my closest friends made the trip from Boston to Florida for a fabulous week of fun at my house. Three of us flew; the rest road-tripped. None […]
Kent and I have slightly different versions of how we met. I contend it was a blind date (which I was tricked into by my roommate), but technically we had met briefly once before. I just didn’t make the connection until he arrived for the first date. Kent had an art class with my roommate […]
Posted in Memories on Aug 30th, 2005
When I was a kid, we had a school in town that we fondly (or maybe not so fondly, I’m embarrassed to say) called the “special” school. This school catered to the special education needs of kids throughout the county—mostly those with mental and physical handicaps, emotional issues, and maybe even a few disciplinary problems. […]
Posted in Memories on Aug 21st, 2005
I like to think I was a pretty good kid in high school. I was quiet and mostly kept to myself; didn’t get into too much trouble. My youngest sister tells me it’s the job of the oldest to “break in” the parents, but that I was MARY POPPINS and did nothing to help her […]
Posted in Funny Stuff, Memories on Jun 11th, 2005
This is a story that I like to tell people, so I figured I would put it here as a post; something fun and different to alleviate the brain drain of this week. When Kent and I were shopping for wedding bands, we decided to have them engraved with the word “Always,” followed by his […]
