Tweet In just a few short weeks I’m going to find myself standing on this baby! She’s the USS Makin Island and right now she’s somewhere 90 miles offshore from San Diego. On February 16, seven other bloggers and I will take a helicopter from Coronado to the navy ship. Once there we’ll get a [...]
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Tweet I’ve been at this blogging business for over four years now, and if you’ve been with me since the beginning then you might notice a few names and faces who seem to pop up every fall: Lori, Amy, Erin, Katie, Jenny and Anne. These women are my sweet college friends; the women who have [...]
by Lesley on February 28, 2010
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TweetWhen Jonathan and I were living in Shenzhen, China there were many nights it was just the two of us. Our little studio apartment, while clean and livable, didn’t feel like home. Our “friends” there were loving and kind but spoke limited English. And, after blowing through the entire first season of 24 on DVD, [...]
Tweet It was already the third day in Paris, but I’d seen only three places: my hotel room, the internet cafe, and the classroom. The point of our trip was to learn as we traveled, but that particular week my head had been buried in more books than city maps. Two projects were looming, hundreds [...]
Tweet L-R…Jonathan, Matt, Brett, Sawyer, Sam / Sharon, Niki, Andrea, Me A new year with old friends is: a 65 hour slumber party…Jalepeno poppers…sweet baby smiles…sweatpants…quaint Ashland streets…an uphill run that kicked my butt…rainy afternoons in the jacuzzi…movies…games…homemade apple cobbler…gobbling up my new books…sleeping in…you?