I don’t think I’ve ever needed a vacation as much as I needed to get away with Nick to the Big Island over New Years. Nick has always…

So here’s something I’ve been wanting to talk about on my blog for a long time, but haven’t been able to find the courage to do. I have…

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As people all around the world heard, Hawaii had a terrible scare for 38 minutes on Saturday. I was lucky. I slept through most of it. I probably had…

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For the past two years, my good friend Christy (from Planes, Trains, and Running Shoes) and I started a virtual book club called Beyond Words. We have 62…

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! However and whatever you celebrate, I hope it’s great. Nick’s off from now until the beginning of…

Last year, I filled out this survey, created by Jamie. I enjoyed filling it out so much that I decided to do it again for 2017! So here it is,…

Every December, one of my friends from grad school makes a list of 10 things she did that year that she had never done before. I made my…

After months of struggling to post, I am back with two posts in two days! I don’t usually post back to back days but lots of my blog…