… you need to commemorate your hard work. Believe me, I know… Packing the car. Going to practice. Showing up early for games. Washing uniforms. Watching your kid bat. Watching your kid pitch. Over and over and over. This spring, my 9-year-old son Leo...
As a card-carrying registered member of Phipps, I make sure to visit at least once every season. In looking at my blog history, I noticed that the last time I blogged photos from a Phipps flower show was 2011?!? What have I been doing, working or something? 2013 was...
There’s so much in this amazing world of ours to be moved by. Not a day, or perhaps even an hour, goes by that I don’t look around and marvel at people and places and moments. And I often find some remarkable insight when I listen to the podcast 99 Percent...
10 years ago today…. I married Matt! (Thanks to my sister Beth for painting the pumpkins.) Our wedding day was a little bit different. We were already living together, so we spent the night before the wedding at home, and had breakfast together the next day....
On Saturday, January 15, 2005, my husband Matt and I walked into a Subaru dealership in a Pittsburgh suburb, ready to buy and drive home a car that very day. (We knew we wanted the car soon, but our timetable was moved up when that very morning, our car had...
Three years ago, my son Leo started kindergarten. And today it was his little brother’s turn. Off they went together to the bus stop, bright and early. This little guy has been reading up a storm for quite some time, and randomly saying things like “half...
