The lake.  The dunes.  The friends.  When I think of the friends we'll miss, I get tears in my eyes. And it seems like only yeste...

When I see these flowers up agains a white wall, I think, How beautifl.  How striking.  How lovely to have a tiny, tall flower garden. ...

We've been trying to save money on air conditioning, but let's just say studying when it's hot is, well, hard.  So we've ma...

There's a meal we like to call haystacks.  Chips or rice or both, followed by beans, lettuce, olives, onions, tomatoes, avocados, ma...

 Sometimes, we go to the beach, coming away and resting a while with fellow laborers--just to enjoy the sun and water and sand for a fe...

I'm studying for comprehensive exams (comps)--Beethoven, his third symphony, and also therefore Napoleon.  So my ears perked up a bit ...

In honor of someone we love who recently broke her arm, I thought I would share the sympathy I received when I broke my arm.  The first...