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Subway
As I was munching on my Subway sandwich at lunch today (six-inch turkey on honey oat, all veggies but onions and jalapenos, thankyou), it got me thinking about England (will explain later), which in turn got me thinking about my blog. The original purpose of my blogging aspirations was to talk about a year spent in…
Read MoreUncle Deanie
When she was younger, my cousin Allison’s daughter Callie called my mom “Uncle Deanie” instead of “Aunt Denalyn.” The Deanie part, understandable. Denalyn is difficult for most adults to pronounce. The Uncle part, hilarious. And so it’s stuck for several years and often times I, my sisters and brother-in-law affectionately refer to my mom as…
Read MoreWe Build
I haven’t lived in the city of Nashville for very long, about seven months. That’s enough time to experience a couple of seasons, find some great restaurants, declare a few “favorite places,” and meet several new faces. I still tell people I’m from Texas. I still consider myself a newby to the area, and I…
Read MoreFarewell Oxford
2.5 months and I think I’m finally ready to utter those words. I left Oxford mid-September for a new job and life in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Closer to home but not home. The absence of posts can be attributed to a crazy last month in Oxford full of finishing up the dissertation, last trips to…
Read MoreThe Amazing Race
That’s the only reality show I would ever consider doing and I kinda feel like I was just on it. 5 cities in 10 days- that qualifies, right?? Over the past week and a half I hit up Paris with my cousin Dana, her daughter (could someone please tell me if this makes her my…
Read MoreAnd Then There Are Those Days
where you don’t have one but two low tires on your bicycle- what you depend on to get from A to B. Where you wait inside for the rain to stop just for it to start again as you took the gamble and left home without an umbrella. Where you decided to join the university…
Read MoreOxford in the Summertime
is warmer, slower and just overall a bit nicer. It’s hard to believe I had an earlier plan of leaving this place in June. I already wouldn’t have seen/felt/experienced so many things. For example… what Uni Parks feels like in bare feet and a tank top the distinctly British way of bar-b-qing: as often as…
Read MoreDear dad,
As you may have read a few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to my mom for Mother’s Day about just some of the many reasons I love her. As it is now Father’s Day, I would like to do the same for you dad. Not in a I-guess-I-should-because-I-did-for-mom kinda way and we should keep…
Read MoreMoloka'i
For the past 8 days I have, at various times, gotten sunburned, dug my feet deeply into the sand, lain on the beach for way longer than is healthy, gotten a zero-gravity pedicure (zero-gravity is the only way to go when getting a pedicure), gone on power walks with my mom along the shore, played…
Read MoreOh, the Places You'll Go!
I’ve been a few places over the last few months that deserve some blogging attention, as belated as it is. The stamp collection in my passport now proudly consists of three new members: Germany, Greece and Austria, visited in the months of February, April and May and all unforgettable in their own right. Instead of…
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