memories
Claire has been helping me sort through some old pictures so that they don’t just get sucked into the vast disarray of “storage.” And there were some I can’t pass…
August 26th…last year and this
Real quick… It’s almost midnight but I have to document the 26th of August in the few minutes before it’s over. Because exactly this day last year we were here:…
A belly dancer, the Nutcracker, and some China thoughts
Below is a selection from my journal entry from the end of China as I sat in the quiet auditorium after most of the other parents had left following the…
Guilin & Yangshuo
I tried to get us to Guilin the last time we were in China eight years ago but it just didn’t work out. So I worked hard to get us…
life and a visit to Kevin’s hometown — Elephant Mountain
Why does all the crazy stuff happen when Dave is out of town? Or do I just feel like it’s more crazy when he’s not by my side to share…
the Great Wall — adventures in Beijing part 2
(Beijing part 1 is HERE) We were so full of excitement on the morning we headed to the Great Wall. I can’t explain it except to say that it was…
adventures in Beijing — part 1
Warning: this is a marathon of a post. Maybe my longest ever, and that’s saying something! Probably outside of our family only my mother will make it all the way…
October 2014 little things
It is getting cold here in Shanghai. We have been bundling up and scraping by for enough sweaters and jackets. Coming from the desert we’re a little wimpy I must…
We live here:
You know those little surges of pure joy that can just hit you sometimes? Those little moments that just whack you over the head and remind you how dang lucky…