Back to Ohio

I’m afraid there’s not much to say about Dayton, Ohio. Ohio is not one of my favorite states. I just don’t find anything to be very interesting about it. It feels depressed to me. But maybe that’s just me. At any rate, there isn’t a whole lot doing in downtown Dayton, so it was a [...]

Farewell to the Deep South

Last week was our final week in the deep South. We arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina in the early morning hours on Monday via the sleeper bus. It was a bumpy ride getting to Raleigh, without our regular driver, Cookie. This time we had a guy named Skippy driving the bus (what’s with the funny [...]

Southern Charm

Greenville, South Carolina is a great town! Who knew?
We arrived in the wee hours of Monday on the sleeper bus. The hotel I was staying at – the Holiday Inn, was sort of in the middle of nowhere, near the freeway with the only restaurants nearby being a Burger King and a Waffle House. I [...]

No More Subway Sandwiches!

Wow. Birmingham, Alabama – perhaps the most dire downtown yet when it came to food options and all-around life. It’s sort of a shame actually, that we were staying downtown and at the mercy of public transportation and the two restaurants in the immediate vicinity (I never want to eat Subway again), because driving into [...]

Kristoff, February 2004-April 2008

I just got the sad news from Andrea that Kristoff, Tallulah’s brother, passed away today. He had been sick for the past week and when Andrea brought him into the vet they diagnosed him with liver disease and he died while at the vet’s office. It is such a shock as he was such a [...]

A Couple of Finished Projects

I finished some knit items a few weeks ago but haven’t had a chance to take any good photos until now. I just bought a tripod for my cameras, and taking self-portraits is soooo much easier now! Speaking of self-portraits, the first project that I have started is called “365 days” – you take a [...]