Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Six-Word Challenge
I’m coming late to the party, but I just read about Smith Magazine’s six-word memoir concept. It’s pretty simple: tell your life story in six words. Should we try it? I’ll start. You add. (Lurkers, please join in!)
Jess:
Happiness: reading in bed eating olives.
Chiles Rellenos
Dave had to work on Friday, so I got up and did some video exercising. I had a project in mind—cleaning up my home e-mail (1193 messages in the inbox!)—so I worked on that along with emptying the file folders that hold our bills and paperwork for the year. It’s nice to start a new [...]
New Year’s Eve and Day
Dave and I spent our weekend off doing more or less nothing, except having fun and storing up energy for 2009. We spent New Year’s Eve with Andrew and Maggie, Andrew’s parents and sister, and assorted friends. It was a really nice evening—plenty of good drinks and several great conversations, including one about authorly integrity [...]
Merry Christmas!
I repeat, Merry Christmas! We went to the 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve service at church last night, so we got to start our celebration in the car as the new day turned over. It was an interesting service, meant to be contemplative, so it didn’t have as much singing as we would’ve liked. But it [...]
On the Road
Well, just for the novelty, I’m blogging from the road. It’s 9:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time, on Thanksgiving, and Dave and I are in Illinois, nearly to Chicago. We started driving in Boulder at about 5:30 p.m. last night, and, save a brief mistake that took us out of our way, we’ve been heading to [...]