About 30 years ago my dad bawled like a baby when he held me for the first time. Has he told me this? No, but I know it must be certain.
My mom had to undergo a C-section with me because I would have been breech. I was a month early, and apparently I decided to [...]
For the first time ever, there were no family gatherings to attend to this Thanksgiving. Seems all of our family members were with in-laws or unable to get to this part of the country except for Colleen, who has to work tomorrow so she couldn’t travel to where the rest of her family was. The 3 of us decided [...]
A memory
It is 2004, my first trip to Vegas and I will finally get to meet Jeff’s sole cousin, Ryan (I have a couple dozen cousins, so this one-cousinthing is a surprise to me.) Ryan and Robin are getting married one week before Christmas, and Jeff and I are full of excitement: A wedding, reuniting with a [...]
It’s so amazing how busy our lives can get the older we get. Remember college days where all we had to do was hang out with each other, maybe do a little studying (I know, laugh with me), and maybe a part-time job? We weren’t scattered all over the country (or even all over the [...]
Lessons I have learned in my lifetime (thus far):
- Sometimes “bite me” is the best response.
- If you don’t have anything nice to say, sometimes that’s the best time to talk.
- Kisses are not contracts and presents are not promises (read that in a poem in high school; it stuck.)
- What is devastatingly heartbreaking today [...]
So my brother Kevin invited a bunch of us to go hiking over Easter weekend (he had Good Friday off of work, so a good time to go.) I have not been on an overnight, not-car-camping hike since I was 12 and was going to Trailblazer Camp at Bethelwoods (I’m certain my dear friend Jenny [...]