Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Here are some things I love about Norfolk: —Celebrating Megan’s birthday at the Oceanview Pier with $1 beers —The city symbol is a mermaid —The historical significance of this bay, and the ships that once sailed where the barges and Coast Guard ships sailed tonight —From my house I can hear the neighbor’s wind chimes,…
I had this New Year’s resolution to take fewer photos this year. I am officially abandoning this goal. We got in the car, all ready to go, car running and everything, when: CANCELED—the Cherry Blossom festival at Red Wing Park was officially canceled because of the rain. We went anyway. The Japanese garden and yoshino…
I can’t believe we did it! This is the first time I’ve done a weekend trip with the kids by myself. And it was so fun! Walking across the National Mall we stopped for one of Isaac’s favorite parts of the trip: watching a DIGGER! But this wasn’t just any digger. It was a digger…
If you’d told me a year ago I’d be under the cherry blossoms in DC at the end of March, I wouldn’t have believed you. We had the worst trip last year—Chris had a very limited window when he was home between workups, and the days we went were freezing cold. None of the tidal…
We continue the photo spring cleaning with this evidence of me doing a glass blowing class at the Chrysler Museum of Art’s Glass Studio. Just in case you didn’t know all perks of working at the Chrysler. The kids and I also had friends from Isaac’s preschool class over to celebrate Palm Sunday.
LanternAsia at te Norfolk Botanical Gardens was really enchanting. It was one of those evenings that I think Isaac might remember after I expect him to forget. We had gorgeous, warm weather, a slight breeze, exotic music floating between the suspended lanterns. It was nights like these that first made me want to travel the…
She pulled a thin, fleece blanket over her shoulders and talked to no one in particular, but maybe to me: “I’m making it. I just can’t believe it. I never thought I could do it, but look at me. I am making it on my own.” We were in a church basement on thin insulation…
