A few weeks ago I came home from a night class only to be greeted by my husband who had a ’surprise’ for me. Now our surprises tend to be understated: “look, i bought you your favorite peanut butter” or “i fixed your bike”. My last surprise from him was a tooth flosser with [...]
BCM Travels
This summer I went on two trips with Big City Mountaineers. This organization takes urban teenagers on outdoor wilderness trips. BCM partners with agencies in urban areas such as non-profits or social service agencies, and then 5 youth and one adult youth leader from the agency (who works with those students all year) go on [...]
Chicago to Pasadena
Sorry for the lack of blogging lately, but I have a very good reason- I just moved across the country. I said goodbye to a job. I packed up an apartment into a Honda Civic and 15 medium-sized boxes. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. I said goodbye to friends. I switched my address.
And I [...]
vacation
I tend to a be a “delayed gratification” kinda person. Which means i like to leave the better stuff until later so I have something to look forward to. So this year Mike and I waited until the first week of June to take our vacation, even though we are moving in July to California.
We [...]
