I had this moment of panic a few weeks ago, when I realized that my life consisted of driving a Toyota Corolla, attending retirement luncheons at Red Lobster and working a desk job in the suburbs. (I ate three cheddar biscuits for those wondering. They were delicious.) The even scarier part of all of this … Continue reading »
Category Archives: nostalgia
DC chilling
“DC really only started becoming cool like five years ago,” my friend Liz explained as we ate red velvet cake at Founding Farmers restaurant in Washington DC this past Saturday. I have no what DC was like pre-2008, but I was definitely impressed with how much fun I had during my brief time in the … Continue reading »
Turning in my house key
The beauty of living nine hours away from my mom’s house is that I can decide to drive there on a whim. The downside of living nine hours away from my mom’s house is that I can decide to drive there on a whim. I don’t know if you’ve had the extreme pleasure of driving … Continue reading »
I helped make these shoes
One of my all-time favorite graduate school memories has to be the time that my friends and I flew to New Orleans to go to the Railroad Revival Tour featuring Old Crow Medicine Show, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and Mumford and Sons. I mean it’s hard to choose my favorite graduate school memory … Continue reading »
So this is the New Year
It’s kind of funny, I ended 2011 exactly how I started 2011: skiing at Keystone and hanging out in a condo with friends! I’m apparently a creature of habit. That or I just have excellent taste. Keystone sunset Anyway, it has been fun to think back on 2011 and how much my life has changed … Continue reading »
America’s best idea
One of my favorite parts about working for the National Park Service is reading the Morning Report and the Daily Almanac on the employee intranet. On the Daily Almanac, there’s always a quote about the parks, from NPS employees, politicians or historians, and the quote today really hit me close to home. It’s from Enos … Continue reading »
High school days
During my senior year of high school my AP Literature teacher forced all of us to keep a journal in the spring semester. I found it to be an annoying extra assignment at the time, but now it’s awesome because I have a record of my final high school days. Since I am home for … Continue reading »
The original motherland
I originally started this blog last May to chronicle my return to Colorado. Mostly I wanted to write about the awesome trail runs that I was finding in the Denver area. After my staycation summer, it morphed into a blog about my adventures in Colorado and fun times in the mountains, with the occasional entry about … Continue reading »
Oh what a year
Since I recently moved into a new apartment, I just printed out a bunch of pictures to update picture frames. And as I was reviewing my pictures I realized what a fun year 2010 has been. In honor of the coming new year, I went ahead and picked out a picture from each month in … Continue reading »
Peace Out ATown
“It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it a home.” This quote, courtesy of Mr. Edgar Guest, was the answer to a question at the latest trivia night at The Albert in Atlanta and fittingly the sum of my experiences in Atlanta. I’ll explain. To be honest, I was a reluctant … Continue reading »
