I am more nostalgic than ever lately. Maybe it’s because good memories are a balm in seasons of hard change. Or maybe it’s because the world news is painful to watch, and the past feels safer. Whatever the reason, I love the sights, and sounds, and scents of anything old and familiar right now. A…
Bad service is exhausting. I’m in the middle of an email exchange with a company that has yet to send me a gift I ordered for someone more than six weeks ago. The item is in some sort of retail purgatory; it’s marked PAID but has yet to be marked SHIPPED. This business has cute,…
Last week we took the girls to Disney World. The weather there in September is a bit cooler/cloudier than in mid-summer, and the crowds are much lower after Labor Day. {As a side note, much lower crowds are not to be confused with no crowds. I would call the September crowds manageable}. We recruited my…
Last week after the wedding festivities in Orlando, we scooted down the road just a bit to “the happiest place on earth.” {I believe it also deserves the honor of being labeled “the most humid place on earth,” at least in July}. We knew going into this trip that the Toddler’s ripe age of twenty-one…