The week after we brought Hudson home from the hospital…it basically looked like a tornado had ripped through our home!  Diapers were strewn everywhere…presents, clothes and mail were piled in corners…and paper!  There was so much paper…everywhere.  Post-it notes recording eating schedules and Tylenol consumption…sheets of information from the hospital…to-do lists from here until the […]

I remember that Wednesday afternoon so vividly.  We had just landed in Italy earlier that day…the heat of Rome in the summer was overwhelming…and the two of just stood there.  Staring.  We were in the middle of a crowded piazza – sweat rolling down the side of our face – with the Pantheon directly in […]

A couple I met in Portland a couple of years ago once showed me a picture that they had taken on the day that they had declared bankruptcy.  They lost nearly every thing they had that morning and with tired eyes behind over sized sunglasses, they stood outside the courthouse and captured that moment.  It […]

I fell asleep last Tuesday night around 10:30pm.  I drank my medicine…took my Tylenol…and buried myself under the blankets.  It was strange to look out my window and know that a new year was going to pass over head as we slept.  Strange to know that when we woke up the next morning, a blank […]

It was July of 2007.  My birthday, actually. Steve and I had been married for two years and at the time, we were living in our 640 square foot apartment on the top floor of an old house.  We loved our apartment.  It had character…it had style…and it also retained heat in the summer like […]

Two weeks after Steve and I started dating…one of his grandmothers died. I remember waving goodbye to him as he drove away for the funeral and the sound of his voice when he later called me from his parent’s home.  It was a hard time for him.  It was a hard time for his whole […]