Last night I went to the park with my friend, Krissy, and her kids. Krissy is from India. That will come into play later in this story.
We were hanging out at the slide area when a little girl comes up to us and starts chattering away. Here are some excerpts from our time together.
Girl: (to [...]
Last night, I was running through my neighborhood. It was not a great run. I felt like I was moving through mud, my feet dragging across the sidewalk. In between songs blaring on my iPod, all I could hear was the scuffing of my shoes on the sidewalk and my raspy breathing.
Even my shadow seemed [...]
Do you ever do anything really stupid. Like, after you’ve done it, you can’t even believe you did it.
I do things like that about once a week. On a good week.
So, instead of another picture post, which I know you’re all sick of, I’m going to share an idiot moment from last night.
For two years, [...]
Today is Amanda’s birthday.
Amanda is one of my favorite people in the world. Even if she can’t be serious in a picture for two seconds.
No seriously, she is. She and I have similar philosophies when it comes to food.
And I don’t just love her because she’s my cousin. I love her because she would do [...]
Today is my mom’s birthday. I hate that for the past five years, I’ve never been able to be home with my mom on her birthday. We have to make-do with flowers delivered to her work, beat up packages containing a gift, and the occasional off-tune rendition of “Happy Birthday” on her voice mail. I [...]
I haven’t blogged since Sunday. I know, you’ve been wiling away your days, wondering “When will Brandy fill my life again with her words of wisdom.” Well, it ain’t happening today. I have no wisdom. No creativity. My allergies are killing me. I’ve been house and pet sitting for two weeks, and I want to [...]
The title of this blog post was my shout earlier this weekend. I’ve been having a lot of “wow, I’m an idiot” moments lately, and I thought I would share them with you, dear reader. But I’m not stupid. I swear.
I was helping a friend make up her kid’s bed, and things were just not [...]
So, I’m really not a people person.
I know, shocker, right?
It’s not that I dislike people. I’m not even bad at making friends. But it doesn’t come easy to me. I hate talking to new people. I would prefer to skip the whole “getting to know you” phase. I don’t think I make very good first [...]
I think I would like to start a new fourth of July tradition.
Of course, there will be fireworks and food (mmmm, gelato!)
But there will also be insanely big eagle statues and lots of pretty flowers.
There will be giant cars made out of Legos.
Incredible mountains and the most fabulous smelling roses ever.
And the [...]
I was a teenager the first time I heard of Rwanda. In magazines, I saw grainy images of bodies piled on top of each other, mass graves on the sides of dirty bloody roads. But like most people, I quickly forgot.
It wasn’t until years later that I even began to understand what I saw as [...]