We finally have an irrigation system at the Hayley home.
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Becoming a Mix-Master
Well – it wasn’t quite what we had in mind for a bartending class, but Kelly and I did attend a class and it was touted as a bartending class. That’s got to count for something. We did learn the principles of cocktail making – including when to shake versus stir. Apparently there’s a little […]
TED Summit 2016
This is a very long overdue update on my TED Summit 2016 experience. As a TEDx organizer and a watcher of online TED Talks, I had some idea in mind of what a TED in-person experience would be like. Yet at the same time, I had absolutely no expectations. After all, how can you possibly […]
Brewery Fun | Lakewood Brewery
There’s a reason why I keep a 101 list – for summers where we’re so busy that we just want to nap when we have a bit of downtime, it’s a reminder to carve out time to do fun things. The 101 list was the reason we wrapped up a weekend with friends at Lakewood […]
Give Me a Little Sugar – Mexican Sugar, That Is
Sometimes you want to eat at a restaurant because a critic says it’s The Place. Other times you want to eat at a restaurant because you know the chef and trust the newest venture will be wonderful. And yet other times you want to eat at a restaurant because it’s a local place and you […]
The Next (Gen) Step
My friend A, who knows all things beauty, suggested I give Next-Gen nails a try when I wasn’t sure what I thought of my gel manicure. So I did: Another great, long-lasting performance. This is about 5 weeks later on the day I had them removed: Yet again, my nails underneath took a bit of […]
Becoming a Sew-and-Sew
So (sew?) I did it…I finally purchased my very first new-to-me sewing machine. [ Insert angelic chorus here. ] For years, I’ve used hand-me-downs from my mom and my mother-in-law. While those machines performed admirably, they both eventually stopped functioning in frustratingly basic areas. Like the machine that wouldn’t backstitch. And the other machine that wouldn’t […]
Up Up and Almost Away
Well, it wasn’t quite a balloon ride, but I did get an off-the-ground experience in a hot air balloon. (I should finish that sentence with punctuation reflective of my emotion in the moment. Let me add on: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) We (the City) received a new hot air balloon earlier this year. Although she’d been tested and flown […]
Finishing a Yelp 100
I’ve been half-heartedly engaged on Yelp (a review website). I upload reviews, every now and then answer a question and otherwise leave it be. And in truth, much more of the latter now because 1) who has time and 2) I’ve noticed some people on the Yelp site Live For Yelp rather than Living For […]
Three Halfs in Four Months
I had a goal of running three half marathons in one year. I just didn’t plan to run three halfs over the course of four months. But you know, sometimes weird stuff like that happens. New Orleans Half Marathon {February 2016} A little warm in New Orleans for February, but it was still a lot of […]