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Sunday, August 7th found me refusing to leave the Tahiti Village resort property despite my friends suggestions of “Pizza! At New York, New York” and “Shopping! At the outlets” and all sorts of other things that paled in comparison to the idea of floating around the lazy river with a Mike’s Hard Lemonade™ so we [...]

So….uhm. I have some news. I was diagnosed last week with a colorectal cancer. I am shocked, stunned, scared, anxious and all those other things. But, I am also still me and so of course there’s a story behind it (butt pun #1!). I met up with a bunch of Semester at Sea staff folks [...]

No grand entrance, no re-cap of the last 18 months other than to say that I worked, I played, I laughed, I cried, I fell in love and most relevant of all…realized that the more answers you learn, the more questions there are. I am now an aunt 3 times over with the addition of a [...]

Today is my 35th Birthday. Maybe if I say or type that enough times it’ll sink in. Today is my thirty-fifth birthday. Nope. It’s still surreal. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that I am 15 years from 20 years old and 15 years from being 50 years old. I’m closer to middle-age [...]

Despite the fiasco that was The Oyster Incident of 2008, I ventured forth and took another cooking class (#247) with two of my favorite colleagues, CJ (Left) and Bubbles (R). This class was “Pot Pies & Meat Pies” and it was deliciously fun. We made little pot pies full of all kinds of goody goodness [...]