Live from St. Louis, it’s… WHEEL – OF – FORTUNE!!!! John and I are celebrating this crazy “holiday” with some dear friends of ours, Justin and Lauren, in the great state of Missouri.  We have had the best mini-vacation.  The fall weather here in St. Louis is just PERFECT.  Yesterday we went to this big […]

We were in our fifth hour of driving.  The rain had set in.  The windshield wipers were getting a workout.   Nothing but wide-open fields surrounded us and black asphalt eventually vanished into the horizon.  The date was 10.10.10 – our two year anniversary.  He had one hand on the steering wheel and with his other […]

I remember being a little girl… a little shy, quiet girl with hair almost as long as she was tall.  And as I finally grew into that long head of hair, I remember desiring to be this free spirit.  I didn’t think it was me.  I thought was too practical.  Too straight-laced.  But somewhere in […]

Today is a big day. You see, I’m always a little late getting into the “hip” things.  Crocs, when they were hip, took me like two years get.  (By the way, I do NOT wear those anymore.)  Eyeliner on the bottom of my eyelids… didn’t figure out what that did for a girl until college.  […]