Category Things I love
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
The first best thing about Thanksgiving is getting together with family for delicious food, fun conversations, and the feeling of gratitude for all the blessings that fill my life. All those things happened this week (I flew down to Reno and spent the holiday with my parents), but since my phone battery died and my […]
The Hike: Backpacking the White Pass – Pilot Ridge Loop
Two weekends ago I took a day off work and went backpacking in the Northern Cascades with two of my best friends from law school. Amy flew in from DC, and Kristin flew up from El Paso. We spent Friday night running last-minute errands to REI and the grocery store, and then left first thing. […]
Amsterdam
After finishing meetings in Berlin on Wednesday, my colleague and I flew to Amsterdam for another series of meetings there. These meetings could not have been more different! The Berlin meetings were formal (in a conference room), highly contentious and underscored by deep distrust between the two parties, but the Amsterdam meetings were casual (in […]
Gritti in PDX
One of my best friends from my days studying in France is a German girl named Grit. She lives in Berlin, works as a freelance journalist for the Deutsche Welle, and is one of those special souls who, if I didn’t already have a twin sister, I might have suspected of being my twin separated at birth. About […]
Utah!
Oh man. How can it already be February? This year is going by way to quickly. And of course I’ve written about basically nothing that’s happened so far. A lot of it’s just going to need to be water under the bridge, but I did want to capture a great little trip I took a […]
Hummingbirds!
As if lush, winter-flowering bushes weren’t enough to make me love where I live, a family of hummingbirds has moved in. I’ve counted at least three so far. They play in the fountains and hang out in the trees, and I feel as happy as a kid on Christmas every time I see them. Can you […]
Flowers in January
Last night when I got home from work, I smelled something lovely. A fresh, floral aroma floating around my front door. How nice, I thought, one of my neighbors must have walked by a few minutes earlier, leaving a trace of perfume. Tonight I came home and, as I fumbled with my keys in the […]
The hills are alive…
What’s a super fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon? Singing along with Julie Andrews at the top of your lungs with a group of friends and a sold-out theatre full of grown-ups and children who are all doing the same. We were in the 5th Avenue theatre, an ornate old building downtownwhere the touring […]
You know what fall means . . .
Theatre season is back!!! To kick it off, we caught tonight’s performance of A Chorus Line at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Nothing more decadent than leaving work at 5pm to meet friends for dinner and a play ON A WEEKNIGHT!! Such a great show. I saw the Broadway revival in New York several years ago, […]
Vacation!
Destination: South Korea and Japan. The fun begins in T minus 5 hours. Not only do I have approximately 17 different outfits in here;I also have a full kit for climbing Mt Fuji. I bear my testimony that packing cubes are true.In the name of REI, amen. Boba Fett!Traveling the universe in a film […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 