For as long as I can remember my family has had a tradition of making Christmas wish lists at Thanksgiving. Once each person’s list is made, we pass them around to the rest of the group and we “dot” items on each list that we plan to get as gifts. Once you’ve passed on your [...]
Thirteen years ago I spent two weeks in the Caribbean sailing and scuba diving while living aboard a Beneteau sailboat with six other teens, none of whom I knew on the first day. By the end of those two weeks I’d formed a friendship with a group of some of the most amazing people I’d [...]
When my husband and I got married, we sent a thank you note and a golf gift card to the pastor who married us. We met with him several times leading up to the wedding and felt as though we’d gotten to know each other pretty well during that time. I remember feeling somewhat dismissed [...]
I was walking through the mall with a girlfriend a while back during a shopping mission; I believe I was on the hunt for a pair of pants. Unfortunately, it was a Saturday afternoon and the mall was packed with teenagers, mothers with children and strollers, fellow focused shoppers, lollygaggers, and the usual suspects who [...]
This blog started only about a month ago because I suddenly found myself with all sorts of things I wanted to write about and I’ll admit many of them have been focused on running because I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. What has happened though is that blogging has turned into a much [...]
I continue to be amazed with my husband’s ability to build and fix nearly anything and I am grateful to be spending the rest of my life with a truly handy man. I’ve always liked drills and other power tools and have always wanted to be able to tackle projects on my own. But I [...]
Every year, on the day that offers the first semblance of spring in Annapolis, people come out of the woodwork flooding the streets and sidewalks of downtown, and I am no exception to the crowd. When spring fever hits the town, it usually hits hard. There is not a parking place to be found, coffee [...]
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Really this post should be called sweet teeth because there is no way that one little tooth in my mouth could make me love or crave sweets the way that I do. I simply love them, most kinds, and chocolate in particular. I can think of very few sweets that I don’t like and the [...]
Running in the dark is an experience that is exhilarating while at the same time being a little stressful, confusing, potentially dangerous, but also liberating. When doing anything in the dark, your actions are somewhat disguised by all the blackness around you and it offers you a little bit of freedom because no one [...]
