Fall in love with being alive
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back?” Chris says it’s like going to stay with your parents. It’s home, but it’s not YOUR home. Not anymore. I can’t describe it any better than […]
I didn’t like Myrtle Beach, even in the off-season. I can’t imagine what it would be like if there were crowds. We had a nice lunch at Bubba’s Love Shak and Myrtle Beach State Park (where we stayed) is honestly quite nice and beautiful. I ran from our campsite down to the pier in the […]
I fell in love with the outer banks when I came for a wedding in 2017. That time I watched dolphins swim and shooting stars and spent hours walking the beach looking at shells. This time we had flooding, torrential rain and wind, and it was like a ghost town. No restaurants open, nothing to […]
Virginia Beach! We got our day of warm weather. We got in our first fight on the road. On my birthday *eye roll that begs for patience*. We brought Chief for his first sight (and taste) of the ocean. If you want to do what I did:I recommend going in the off season. The only […]
We rolled into Baltimore later than I wanted. We parked on a suburban street and went out to dinner with friends and I finally felt a little warmer. We saw Washington, DC, including the National archives, the air and space museum, the natural history museum, the White House, the monuments, including the top of the […]
We’re packing and the temperatures are sub-zero. Like really, the temperature today is -3. I am writing this after the fact so I know what is going to happen and can tell you. What is going to happen is that we are going to leave home and travel for 84 days straight. Some of it […]
I did too much and now I am too tired again. Don’t get me wrong, it was wonderful. Birthday celebration with my mom, pottery with my nieces, lunch, shopping, drinks and nachos at a barbecue, neighborhood block party… But I’m not better yet. And my body says “Slow. The. Hell. Down.” I will try to […]
It was my Mom’s 60th Birthday this year. She says “you’re only as old as you feel” And she practices what she preaches. So for her birthday I took her axe throwing. I sent a photo of her bullseye to my Dad and his response was “Dam Bad Ass” I asked my mom if he […]
And just like that, the Holidays are over. The decorations are packed up. It’s darker in the house without all the lights. We’re facing the rest of winter without any more magic. Except, of course, for the fact that we’re about to take a 3 month long road trip from New York to Florida, to […]
Well, technically, we’re not contagious anymore. So we went on a date night that I’d booked before we got sick. We just promised each other we’d stay upright for the whole thing. Life goes on even when you feel like garbage. We took a cooking class and made shrimp, bruschetta, stuffed mushrooms, flatbread pizzas and […]
