“Fuck yeah!” was the reply to my “I think the military is sending me to your neck of the woods in a few weeks. Want to meet up for some sushi or something?” email.
“A few weeks” ended last night. I followed Trudie’s (my Garmin) instructions across town. I laughed out loud at the sign showing [...]
I decided I wanted to go to BlogHer last week, because the cool kids I already knew were going, and I wanted to meet a couple people whose words I liked, and one person from my hometown I’d been trying to meet for months, and I figured I could write it off, now that I’m [...]
07.28a brief performance
Thanks to Kathy at The Junk Drawer for telling me about this and to Heather from Confessions of a Coal Miner’s Granddaughter for recording it!
More to follow when I have time….
Over Memorial Day weekend, we drove to Great Smoky Mountains National Park for some hiking and bonding. On the way, we saw this place somewhere in North Carolina:
I decided this a great place to pull over, so, without warning anyone else in the car (to include 3 sleeping children, a dog, and an oblivious [...]
The first time I tried to meet a friend I made through blogging was in 2007 when I was writing from Iraq and befriended a doctor who was writing from the same location, shortly after he gave me a “shout out” following his getting a New York Times link to his blog, sending me several [...]
