533 steps
psst — want to know a secret? well, it’s not that big of a secret. but i’m terribly, terribly afraid of heights. so one of the things i did in germany last week was climb the 533 steps to the top of the köln cathedral — as high, anyway, as they’ll let you go. it’s … Read more
around the world
at about this time last year, i was angrily dealing with the reality that i couldn’t go to germany on my church’s two-week trip because i had to have brain surgery. brain surgery, of all time-consuming, vacation day-sucking things! then it turned out no one went, after all, because there weren’t enough people who … Read more
golden afternoon
“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer…. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~Henry James … Read more
ginger bears
this morning my friend gracie (who is not really named gracie, but that’s what i call her) and i went to the downtown overland park farmers market to visit the produce and also the clock tower bakery, where our friends tabby and judy work (those are, for all practical purposes, their real names). my mother … Read more
of tears, twitter and (chocolate) temptations
from the bookshelves: a midsummer night’s dream, by william shakespeare today threatened to be one of those days. you know the kind — where everything that possibly could go wrong does, anything you do all of the sudden takes forever, and you get frustrated and worked up to the point that, darn fergie, you’re just … Read more
