A Visit to Georgia
Since this year was our turn to visit the in-laws for Christmas (and we were overseas having our Croatian adventure over Thanksgiving), I decided to make a trip down to see my family in January. It didn’t hurt that my office was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day which made for a nice long weekend to travel. It was an enjoyable and relaxing long weekend spent visiting with my parents, grandparents and younger sisters. One of the highlights was a multi-hour hike along the Pine Log trail, a picturesque 5-mile trail through the foothills of the Appalachians with several pretty creeks and bridges to cross. Being surrounded by nature is one of my favorite things, and enjoying it with family members makes it that…
Recipes & Meal Planning
Meal planning has always been an off-and-on effort for me. Some weeks go great: I plan the meals, DH does the grocery shopping (he really enjoys it… I had to learn to let him do it), we do the cooking together and it all works out. But some weeks–and it seems like this happens more often than not–we have work events, meet-ups with friends, or some other event that throws off the schedule and we end up either ordering out or throwing together something unhealthy like box mac n’ cheese (sometimes we put broccoli in… I still don’t think that passes for healthy). The worst part is, it’s not like meal planning is that hard to do. Fifteen minutes with a cookbook (or the internet)…
The Resolutions
I did actually write this around the first of the month….just haven’t gotten around to posting it. So, without further ado, here are the resolutions for 2013! Even as a creative person who often flits from one project to the next with a frighteningly short commitment span, I still like to make “to do” lists and set goals. They may be forgotten within months, days, or hours and fall to the wayside, neglected in the wake of more exciting projects and ideas, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get excited at the outset of something new. Like, for example, a new year. I do have a love/hate relationship with resolutions because they pretty much repeat themselves on an annual basis with little to speak of…
“Return of the Daughters” A Review and a Challenge
Nota Bene: I wrote this post a while back when I first watched the film in December, and am not sure why I didn’t publish it then…. This topic has come up a couple times in various conversations I’ve had over the last several weeks, and so it seems as appropriate now as ever. “A Vision of Victory for the Single Young Women of the Twenty-First Century” This documentary compiled by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin embodies the thoughts and conclusions I have come to in the past several years, and I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one. The film showcases the lives of young women who, rather than pursuing independence and a worldly vision of success upon reaching an age of…
Les Miserables and Reflections on a New Year’s Eve
I don’t know how I managed to live 26 years without experiencing Les Miserables but that seems to be the way it worked out. It may be that I was supposed to read it for a high school or college course and somehow managed to write a paper without cracking open the book, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. So, today, when I saw in the theater the blockbuster film which opened on Christmas Day, I was pretty impressed. Not that I was expecting any less. I’m well aware that the musical version of Victor Hugo’s massive tome has been highly-acclaimed for many years, I’ve just never had the chance to partake. Now, however, I plan to fully avail myself of all acquirable…