I love Amsterdam, but every so often I get a hankering for my home town. Usually it’s not a specific thing I’m missing, more the general feel of the place. Sometimes it’s comforting to FaceTime with my friends and family, but I’ve discovered that nothing conjures up the feeling of being back in Kentucky like engaging […]
Read more...The man I love has many gifts. He is, without fail, kind to everyone he meets. He knows the make and model of every car on the road (in the US, anyway. He’s been adding new European models to his mental catalogue with great delight). He is steady and calm. I call him “my lighthouse” […]
Read more...Lately, I’ve been waking up early in the morning, a little more than an hour before Trenton’s alarm goes off. I’m not a morning person, so I transition from sleeping to full-human slowly, like an astronaut regaining her Earth legs. My morning routine goes mostly like this: The alarm on my phone starts playing some […]
Read more...I leaned over in my seat and whispered to Jessica, “This is the last time they’ll all be on stage together.” I hadn’t meant it to be mean, but I saw her wince and immediately regretted it, feeling like the big sister that leans down from the top bunk to whisper “mom and dad are […]
Read more...This weekend I played Sims 3 for the very first time. I started by creating a replica couple named Elsbe and Trenfon that were as alike to us as I could manipulate, using only 5 personality traits. Elsbe liked to cook and read, and was a vegetarian. Trenfon was a friendly computer whiz, also a […]
Read more...I was sitting at my desk focused on some regular and trivial task at work, when the first few chords of Nightswimming came through my headphones, simple and incredibly familiar. In a flash, my heart rate changed, my breath caught in my chest, and I was transported back to a very specific place and time, […]
Read more...Bartenders love Trenton. Wait, let me rephrase that. Female bartenders love Trenton. At first I found it mildly irritating, but now I’m starting to enjoy the perks that come with dating a head-turner. There are still occasional frustrations. Take Moonbeam, for example. Moonbeam is a waitress at Cumberland Brews and that is not her real […]
Read more...The Summer Slaughter tour came through Bogart’s last night. Decapitated was headlining, and Trenton didn’t want to miss the chance to see one of his favorites live, despite the fact that only a small fraction of the original lineup remains. A few years ago, the original(ish) members of Decapitated were involved in a bus crash, […]
Read more...Finley doesn’t know about Pandora and when we showed up to his house for Ultra Cute Movie Night, he was wearing a pair of white short-shorts WELL above the knee. The first cute movie night was a raving success and we had a blast. We watched an old movie starring a young Art Garfunkel, drank […]
Read more...Saturday night, Trenton, Luke, Eli, and I went to It’s All Greek To Me for dinner. Trenton and I had been there before for lunch, and loved it. The host/chef/waiter is this big, friendly, bald Greek man with a mustache who inserts “please” two or three times into every sentence. The menu had changed slightly […]
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