There are those moments which, if given the chance, you might go back in time and change some things, do some things a little differently. And then there are the magic moments. The ones that you wouldn’t change a single thing about. The ones you would repeat over and over if you could, and yet …
“I have no regrets.” It’s super easy to say this when you’re generally satisfied with where you are in life. It’s something I’ve said countless times. It’s also a lie.
On January 12, 2013, I wrote a blog post announcing that I had just made my novel, Neverending Beginnings available to world as an e-book. Today, I am writing a post announcing that it is available in paperback. When I smiled for that picture above on the left, I knew nothing about what I was getting into. …
Last week I was walking to the post office at lunch when a man rushed over to me and asked if I would mind taking a picture for him. Unlike that other university in Virginia, there aren’t too many (read: any) famous rotundas designed by former presidents on our campus, so this was a slightly …
James River Writers, the local organization for writers that I’m part of, asked members to blog about a favorite memory or a little bit about how we got involved with the group this month. When I sat down to think about this, so many great things came to mind. Late night, post event chats with fellow writers …
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on an amazing Twitter feed and found myself just scrolling through, drinking in all the goodness. It was like eavesdropping on a really amazing conversation between an older and younger sister. Which honestly, is sort of exactly what it was– the collective older sisterhood offering up their best …
I’ve heard the story about my grandparent’s first home many times over the years. A granary on the family farm that they repurposed into a modest house after getting married. Two small stories, one room on the bottom and a second stacked right on top of it. They got married in 1947 in rural Virginia– there …
Last Saturday evening my husband and I took the long way home from our nephew’s birthday party. We drove through our old neighborhood and stopped at a favorite coffee shop where they just happened to be showing a world premiere of a movie about biking called, Inspired to Ride. Before the movie they screened several short …
Earlier this week a friend of mine posted a picture from a trip to a local museum with her baby on Facebook. The baby was clearly not a fan of the outing and my friend described it as a “trip to the museum with an angry baby”. She went on to comment that she looked a …
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed using Airbnb on my recent trip to Paris and Brussels. How staying in an apartment, as opposed to a hotel really helped me tap into that live like a local experience that I crave. If you’re not familiar with Airbnb, it’s basically an online service that …
