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 […]

Kevin and I had our Christmas last night, which is probably why I keep thinking that today is Christmas when it’s actually Christmas Eve. I always work too hard for our Christmas dinner.  It’s just the two of us, after all, but I feel that it’s important to start our own traditions.  So, for the […]

When I was little, I was terribly shy.  Incredibly shy.  In fact, for several years, I was bribed with candy lollipops just in an effort to get me to look at the camera.  It never worked, but I always got the lollipop anyway. So I understood little Kari’s timidity when I met her.  Big people […]