When the bow breaks…
A couple of close friends of mine have recently had a baby. I've mentioned April repeatedly in this blog and she and her husband Chris have a new baby girl who is just the most beautiful and cool little girl out there! It was a pure joy for their friends and family to ...
When should I let go of a friendship?
When should I let go of a friendship? This question is a hard one that I've asked myself so many times in my life that I truly don't remember the first time I thought 'this isn't working, I'm not happy and this has to stop.' What I do remember is that I generally ...
Because Trivia night is no laughing matter…
My friend April is one of the calmest, most level-headed people I know. She rescues animals and has the sweetest nature. She's quiet and always willing to lend a hand to anyone that needs it. However, there comes a time when April isn't sweet, kind or particularly compassionate and that's trivia night.
I ...
Those Crazy Kids
It's been a month since I've been back to school and the one thing I miss, more than most of the other fun summer things I've given up, is the biweekly ritual my friends and I have known as trivia night. Every other week we pick a night and we go to the local ...
Internet friends
At CPAC, every time you turned around you could find someone you knew. By this I mean that if you didn't know them personally, you would recognize them from television, their blog, twitter or from pictures with your friends. For me, this meant that CPAC felt like one big family reunion. I'll admit it: I ...
Vague memories of an Irish pub
When we last left our heroine, she was at an Irish pub in the awful land of Washington, D.C.: a land full of people with agendas and horribly arranged streets...
We'd moved to a larger room in the back of The Dubliner and our group was gaining people like crazy. By this time, many ...