Hello, it’s me! The girl formerly known as The Two Year Honeymoon! Welcome to my new blog, Finding Ithaka. I renamed my blog for a few reasons. Our two…

When Nick and I moved to Hawaii, I started this blog to capture our adventures. After five years of long distance and five long deployments with no communication, it…

Leaving Hawaii in the middle of winter was borderline devastating. I couldn’t be too upset, though, because Nick and I were on our way to Europe to visit…

I spent a good deal of time complaining on here about how devastated I was losing my books. So I thought I should post an update about some…

My friend Christy hosts Currently linkups each week. I feel like it’s time for a life update on here, so I thought it would be fun to join in!…

When we moved to Hawaii, Nick and I had been married for 5 days. We had just spent 5 years living apart from each other, on opposite coasts…

The second we found out that mold had contaminated our household goods, the movers packed up everything and took it all back to their warehouse. They didn’t want…

“After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King is talking about writing here in his memoir, On Writing, but doesn’t this advice apply to pretty much everything…

Oh, Hawaii. Did I really live there for two years? Or was that a dream? I miss the beaches and the sun and the warmth and the hiking…

Do you ever read a book and feel like you just had to talk about it with someone? What if that someone is far away? What if you want…