Some Most will argue 2009 was not, in fact, a good year. Well, while I had my share of lost jobs and heartbreak, I also had equal parts triumph and happiness. Really, I can’t complain. Because, in January… I journeyed to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for the first time to cover the launch of the [...]
Why I’m in No Hurry to Get Back to California
December 29, 2009 By 10 Comments
Exhibit A Dad: I don’t want any mashed potatoes. I don’t like them. Mom: You don’t like mashed potatoes?! Dad: I mean, I like YOUR mashed potatoes. Me: Aww, Mom, that’s probably the nicest compliment Dad’s ever given you. Dad: Not true! I told her the other day she doesn’t sweat too much. Exhibit B [...]
Five Years Later
December 26, 2009 By 12 Comments
When Tracy moved to Tullahoma when we were but 11, we weren’t immediate friends. In fact, in later years, we found out that each of us referred to the other (in our own minds) as “that bleached blonde freak” and “that stone-faced Asian girl trying to steal my thunder.” You see, I was at the [...]
The Littlest Angel, Revisited
December 21, 2009 By 15 Comments
The last time I saw this one, she looked like this: Now, six months later, she’s quite a bit chattier and a couple pounds heavier, which no doubt have settled mostly on her head, and bypassed the walking phase entirely, moving straight to a full-on sprint. Behold, at 18 months to the day: That, folks, [...]
It Truly Is the Most Wonderful Time
December 15, 2009 By 19 Comments
My listlessness was quickly overthrown by a smattering of holiday gatherings, festive soirees that couldn’t have come at a better time. First, there was the BlogHer party at Tres Agaves, followed closely by the annual ugly sweater shindig at Bourbon & Branch… …where the prize went to my editor Matt, who showed up with the [...]
Photo Friday: Jerusalem, Israel
December 11, 2009 By 17 Comments
Sometimes pictures speak louder than words. morning fog Yad Vashem, Holocaust memorial local market the Jewish Quarter Hasidic Jewish boys a wiseman dragonfruit an accordion player randomly practicing in the woods of Ein Karem Jerusalem at dusk *Shot with a Canon XTi, 17-85mm lens, housed in a LowePro SlingShot. **For more Photo Friday fun, head [...]
I Believe They Call It a Labor of Love
December 9, 2009 By 38 Comments
When SVV asked me to marry him, I was stoked (obviously), but I sort of figured I’d be hiring people to do all the work for me. I mean, I’d never so much as flipped through a single issue of a wedding magazine, Style Me Pretty was a foreign concept of which I was then [...]
Gift Guide for Globetrotters (+ Another Giveaway)
December 7, 2009 By 31 Comments
Sure, you read a thousand and one gift guides this time of year, and sure, this is likely nothing revolutionary (though it took me hours of tracking down products and links, so do me a favor and act as if it is, K?). But as someone who spends more time of her life traveling than [...]
Photo Friday: Budapest, Hungary
December 4, 2009 By 15 Comments
Four years ago, our first Christmas together, SVV and I packed up all our belongings in Holland, shipped them to our new home in Denmark (to never see them again, actually; stupid Dutch Post), and headed to Central and Eastern Europe for three weeks in lieu of going back to the States for the holidays. [...]
Listless
December 2, 2009 By 23 Comments
Hi, remember me? I’m still here, albeit sporting a newly-formed layer of cobwebs that has grown over my head and my blog, as I leave it here to fester unattended. It’s not that I have nothing to blog about—take your pick: watching fast, fast cars go zooming by at the Grand Prix in Macau; chipping [...]
