I never watched The Price Is Right when I was a child.  We didn’t have a television.  I still to this day haven’t watched it.  I don’t really know the concept or how it works, yet somehow Kevin and I have managed to turn our grocery trips in The Price Is Right contests at the […]

Sometimes I wonder who comes up with the words inside Hallmark greeting cards.  Are they fresh-from-college-marketing-class, scrubbed-up young kids?  Are they wisened, experienced people waiting to retire?  Are they just clocking their hours and writing witty phrases?  Do they write things because they want to say it to someone they know?  Do they write from […]

I can’t believe it’s that time already.  Time to take down the Christmas tree and wrap the ornaments in their tissue paper.  Didn’t I just take them out and hang them? If you’ve been following my blog this year, you already know what happened in our lives, but here’s a recap anyway, just to finish […]

Ring in the New Year and dance until you can dance no more!  Happy 2011!

Books have a beautiful way of making you see things that aren’t really in front of you. Unlike movies, where you just watch and listen, books give you mental stimuli, visulizations, and the characters take on their own form particular to your mind’s eye. Books are really the help guide to an imagination exercise. Because […]

My family was scattered on Christmas. The last time I can remember us so scattered was when I lived in Uzbekistan. It was the Christmas of 2004. I was overseas with a sickly little Charlie Brown tree, Carla was braving an ice storm and emergency shelters in Columbus, and Megan was in Apple Creek. (Carla […]