As evidenced solely by the number of bikes parked outside of our office, I think that the title of this post is fairly accurate. A year ago there would have been one bicycle (two at the most) parked out front. Granted, the bike on the far right has sat there for several months (accumulating dust) [...]
A friend described IKEA to me as the perfect furniture for the highly mobile urbanite crowd. It is high enough on style to look cool, but low enough on price that you do not feel bad about ditching it when you move (or…as I added and he concurred…when it falls apart). Agreement, ambivalence, accolade, argument [...]
When we left our family reunion in Allensville, PA yesterday afternoon it was raining. When we stopped for dinner in Roanoke, VA it was raining. When we checked into a hotel in Christiansburg, VA it was raining. When we woke up this morning it was raining. When we arrived home in Chattanooga, TN it was [...]
I think that whoever the first person was who came up with telling monster stories to kids, he or she must have been a parent traveling with small children. For example, you have to be very careful when staying in a motel. Monsters are attracted to certain sounds, like jumping on the bed or intense [...]
When returning from a long trip or vacation, the thought always runs through my head as I enter the subdivision, “What if something happened to the house while we were gone?” Every time I pull into the driveway things seem just as we left them. You can strike that last sentence as a tree landed [...]