New Years in the Hospital

I feel bad about posting this, because all of the other blogs I'm reading have all these happy, optimistic New Years posts about year-end recaps and resolutions and all that…

Christmas in Pictures

I normally take a lot more pictures at Christmas, but this year I concentrated a little more on enjoying everybody's company. I think part of my motivation stemmed from the…

Happy Boxing Day!

In most ways, this was one of the nicest Christmases that I've experienced in a long time. Everything felt low-key and stress-free and there was pretty much no family drama.…

On Surviving Grad School

There's a discussion floating around the twitters right now about how folks are surviving this current semester. The first response that popped into my head was "mainlining caffeine" which is…

Competency.

Kristian is out of town on a business trip. I didn't think to much about the repercussions of him being out of the state, but my sister, Allison, asked me…