Posted July 27th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
Can I tell you about what a great weekend I was GOING to have? We were going to go to the Xponential festival on Saturday, where we would have basked in the sun all day and taken in They Might Be Giants, among other neat bands. And yeah, I said neat. They are neat. Then [...]
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Posted July 19th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
The weather this weekend was phenomenal. It reminded me of San Diego…sunny & warm but no humidity. On Saturday, WM and I went to visit my Dad, who’s up from Retired Guy Land and is staying with his friends. They have a lake house on Lake Gilman, and Saturday was Lake Gilman Day. We got [...]
Posted July 14th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
As Ollie leaps about and delights us all with his unending enthusiasm, Max is gracefully sliding into middle age. The little beast’s been through a lot, and the amount of bad dreams he has indicates he still remembers a time when he wasn’t loved or wanted. I can’t believe he’s been with me for almost [...]
Posted May 27th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
Every Sunday, WM and I have breakfast at Starbucks. While he works on his lesson plans I go through the Sunday paper — clipping coupons, reading stories and working the crossword puzzles. It puts into a wonderfully relaxed state of mind. This weekend that Sunday-kind-of-feeling ALMOST lasted until we made it into our apartment door, [...]