Over time, all families develop their own kind of shorthand. Usually it’s built out of the many years of memories and inside jokes that have developed over time. For example, if I say, “But you don’t know what color it is!”, the only people who will understand the joke are my immediate family. (The story […]

So, I bought myself some new clothes via JC Penney online. There was free shipping, and things were on sale. After quite a period of time where all the new things I was buying for myself were maternity clothes, it was nice to get a few things that were not designed with an extra flap […]

I was getting ready for bed a couple of days ago, and I noticed something that I hadn’t seen in a long time. In fact, not since I graduated from college. Red streaks on my shoulder. Slight surface bruising from carrying a weighty object slung from my shoulder. In my college days, I had these […]

Once upon a time… My family and I were in Oregon. This is something that happened quite frequently growing up. My paternal grandmother’s family mostly lives in Oregon, around the Portland area, and for a good chunk of my childhood my aunt lived in Vancouver, which killed two birds with one stone. We would see […]