Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. Isn’t it funny how, five years later, I can still remember what day of the week it was? And what I was doing exactly? I was fairly new to the country. I had moved to the States the previous July, and had only started college at Taylor two weeks before. I remember being in the bathroom on 2G, getting ready for my first class of the day. It was around 9:00am. I was washing my face…
Paul and I are in the beginning stages of planning our New England reception. We’re tentatively setting the date for Friday, October 27th (a dinner reception). Our question is, does this work for the New England friends who read this blog? We’re planning on inviting everyone who lives in the area. Also, we’re hoping that Friday night will be okay for everyone. Since we’re leaving on Sunday, we don’t really want to do it Saturday night, but if Fridays’s going…
“[Steve] Irwin, who was director of the family’s Australia Zoo in Queensland, is survived by his American-born wife, Terri, and their two children, Bindi Sue, 8, and Robert, 3. Asked how Terri Irwin was doing, Stainton [Irwin’s manager and close friend] said, ‘A lot worse than me.’” From CNN.com
The hot topic around the blogosphere right now is about working wives, and the effect their career has on their marriage and family. This is something I’ve been wrestling with a lot, and am working on a blog post in my other blog about the subject. (No promises when that will be published!) This topic is an issue (a.k.a. “Mommy Wars”) which has been debated frequently in today’s day and age, with working women becoming the norm. This particular controversy…
Joanna beat me to it about posting this, but I’m going to write about it anyways. :-) A little history: Last April, there was a tragic van/semi accident involving Taylor students and staff, in which 4 students and one staff member were killed. One of the students survived, and was in a coma for about 5 weeks. We all remember what happened there – with the tragic mix-up of identities. So recently, Whitney (the Taylor student who survived the accident)…