I moved home from Japan. I never did blog about it. I think that was because I was so emotionally numb at the time. It almost didn't seem real. I had spent the whole last year I was there counting down the days until I could come home since after Nate left and my close friend Marie got a full time job I was pretty lonely. I hurt my shoulder ( Read more... )

Day Six - We got up early again which with jet lag still lingering was just barely tolerable to the Roommate and headed to Giverny to see Monet's home and famous gardens. You have to take a train and then either a shuttle bus, taxi, or bike the rest of the way. I was hoping to bike through the countryside but the Roommate had twisted her knee ( Read more... )

Day Four - was another day of museums. We started out back at the Louvre. We'd already seen the Mona Lisa and the Italian wing so we started out in the Middle Eastern and Egyptian wings before lunch. After four hours of wandering through the castle (and one worrisome 30 minutes where we got separated) we headed out to the Tulieries for a yummy ( Read more... )

Day One: Roommate did a really good job of buying tickets and selecting seats so we had a row by the window to ourselves on the way over. It was really nice to be traveling "with" someone rather than just traveling to meet someone ( Read more... )

From me and mine.


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I found this in some old pictures my mom had when she made my grandparents' a scrapbook for their 50th anniversary. I'm recently addicted to the scanner so I decided to share. I have no idea who these two kids are or if they are even related to me but I think they're adorable.


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To go along with my last post - if you would like for me to send you a Japanese postcard please comment with your address. (They are screened.) I can't promise I'll send one soon with the holidays but I will send one to you ( Read more... )

Right before I left Japan I got really interested in etegami. It's a kind of Japanese folk art. The word "e" means picture and "tegami" is letter so "etegami" is picture letter. Really they are postcards.

I love postcards. Ever since I was a little girl I have collected post cards. I have hundreds from everywhere I've traveled, some from you ( Read more... )

Many years ago - almost ten now - my sisters and I got a Larry the Cucumber for Christmas. He's like a Mr. Potato Head in that he has different eyes and accessories you can put on him. I don't remember how soon after we started taking pictures of Larry but it wasn't long before he was all over town. From there it was a short step to taking him ( Read more... )

Painting with my three year old nephew.


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