Category Archives: anniversary

Snapshots

We packed everything we needed for a week into one car and drove off. I’d spent the previous two days zipping around making lists, staging items, getting everyone to choose their clothes and toys and books and get them packed already. When we got to the ferry terminal right on schedule, I breathed a sigh…

Five years of fall tradition

Though it takes me a while to sort through my 2 million pictures (give or take a million), I love to go back and find pictures that show our family traditions from one year to the next.  It’s especially important to me since I’ve had to either alter old ones or create new ones since…

A decade and a half

Minus 7 In those days we were Just Friends.  We met freshman year, before classes even began, waiting in line for an English class that I would end up dropping.  But the boy who turned out to live upstairs from me was a keeper.  The following summer we took our very first road trip together…