Happy Easter!

Book Club

My grad school friends and I have been meeting together for the past 10 years. It started as weekly "inquiry" at California Chicken Cafe and has most recently morphed in to Book Club once a month, or so.
We are currently reading The Last Girls by Lee Smith. Last month it was Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

These "girls" certainly hold a special place in my "heart". Our topics of conversations over the years include (but are not limited to) pedagogy, boys, politics, break-ups, marriages, divorces, kids, miscarriages, vacations, deaths, failures, successes and the housing market. The topics of conversation grow with us, but it seems like just yesterday that they started.

New Blog

As new parents, we suddenly got freaked out at the idea of our little Pumpkin being on the Internet for all to see. (Go ahead. Call us overprotective parents. We don't mind.) We have set up a new "private" blog to post her pics. Email me if you did not receive an invite to our new blog and want one.

Proud TatSis

No, Pumpkin hasn't gotten ink done. I stole these pics of my brother Jeff's tats from the website tattoobin.com. Jeff and his ink were spotted at the Body Art Expo in Pamona this month! So proud.