posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Costumes | 2 Comments

Tomorrow is my last day at my first, real job. Until this week, I’d been giddy about leaving the job and starting the new one, about working just one job and working from home all but one day a week. I have big plans for my life-after-9-to-5 … I’ll learn to cook, I’ll clean […]

posted by K | filed under Adoption, IF, Family & Friends | 8 Comments

My grandmother, my mother’s mother, died one week ago today at the age of 83. Once upon a time, she was a fiesty woman who loved to gossip and never failed to shock us a little at least once each time we visited her. She was vain once, too, and kept a photo portrait […]

posted by K | filed under Travel, Mr. and Mrs. | 7 Comments

D and I spent last week in that charming city by the sea, Charleston, S.C. We went there for our honeymoon six years ago, and I intended this to be a romantic, nostalgic anniversary trip. For once, my best-laid plans actually worked out.
It had been a year since we’d gone on a just-me-and-D […]