I count my lucky stars never to have known anyone ever diagnosed with the disease which claims 40,000 women each year. But as a woman, and ...

After lunch, typing away on our computers before our afternoon class, Kyle turns to me and says, "I feel like I am getting a fever blis...

My dear friend Karen sent me an article recently about the declining population in Korea. There is a push for Koreans to have MORE babies, ...

My impressions of Korea so far. Disclaimer: My data pool is limited to the 11 days that we have been here, 3 of which were spent in a jet la...

"Read to me" Kyle pleaded one evening. We often read to each other before going to sleep. It is a ritual I love and hope to cont...

Tuesday evening - Exhausted after 26 hours of traveling, but relieved to have made it into Korea safely and finally with Kyle. First impress...

We were in the car by 5:30 am Monday morning driving the 45 mins to the Houston airport. We arrived in Seoul at 6:40 pm Tuesday (Korean time...

This year has been a whirlwind of emotions so to commemorate it further, I have put together a slideshow of pictures. You might notice that...

HEB, Super Walmart Super Target What do these stores have in common? Empty pumpkin shelves!! That's right folks, I have been to three st...

That's right... ME!!! Monday 8:45 am- Phone alarm goes off. We press every button we can think of to make the darn thing stop making no...

(part II of 2009 in review) written in diary form... July 14 I have flown home without telling anyone but Kyle. He met me at the airport, ...

Had I kept a diary in 2009, rather than this blog, it might have looked like this: January 1st: We celebrated the New Years last night at a ...

Yess sirrreee! They changed our plane tickets. Did the school call and ask us what date we would think best? Take your best guess? If you gu...

Next on our trip is the Houston Rogers Christmas, our final Christmas celebration. The plan was to leave from Houston directly after this g...

"Hey sweetheart, are you planning our anniversary date or am I?" I asked as we lay on the floor lazily one afternoon in early Nove...

Me, the gingerbread house Vanessa made. Where to begin my short yet deplorable story... You could say that my origins are in a candy store....

Christmas has come and gone, and there are so many posts left unwritten I'm not sure even where to start to catch up. With each fluster...

A friend of mine just sent me an article from a blog she was reading, and it moved me nearly to tears. It is an act of kindness which domi...

Last Thursday at 11 am, we rolled out of the driveway absolutely packed to the brim, and steered our car heading South towards home. Wherev...

After 2 weeks and some in West Texas with my grandmother, we have finally come to the end of a never ending string of doctors appointments. ...

"Vanessa?" Kyle whispers to me sheepishly before going to sleep. "hm?" I cooed, as I lazily switched my head position on...

It's funny sometimes to think of just how long Vanessa and I have known each other. While we are both over 1/4 of a century old, it does...