a blog of writing and wandering
As I mentioned in this post a few weeks ago, I traveled to NYC with friends as my summer "vacation". (You know you're an adult when you start vacationing with friends instead of family.) I love traveling with people who aren't interested in the tourist-heavy sites (thank you, Erin and Meredith, for putting up with…
Last weekend, I met the lovely Meredith Sledge in real life. We've known each other through blogging for a few years, but even though we live relatively close together, we'd never gotten the chance to meet. This changed last weekend when she drove to my college and spent a few days in the DC area.…
Part of me cannot believe that it's already Christmas. It seemed that only a few months ago it was summer, and school was just beginning. Yet here it is, December 24th. Christmas Eve. Time seems to go so fast and so slow at the same time, never stopping, just going on and on. This Christmas,…
Here in the highly unpredictable Mid-Atlantic, winter isn't generally full of snow. Sometimes it's just plain nasty out, like right now (30 degrees with I-have-no-idea-how-many-MPH-winds). At school, we all just roll our eyes and say "Ugh, Virginia weather" or "why can't we have snow instead of rain?".But not all days are nasty, and sometimes it's…
