As the niblings get older they don’t need ol’ Aunt Jodi very often. This breaks my heart a little because I miss when they would tell me stories about the Guam school for cute as…
Posts tagged Jaycie
Day 44 of 200: Miscellany About My Day
Tonight we had Jaycie’s farewell dinner. She leaves early in the a.m. tomorrow to drive back to Oregon for her junior year of college. I won’t get to see her until Thanksgiving. I will miss…
Day 40 of 200: Two, Two, Two Teen References in One Post
The first thing you should know is that the movie All the Boys I Loved Before does live up to all the hype. It’s sweet and charming and makes me wonder if there was a…
Day 4 of 200: Dinner & a Movie
Tonight might be the exact 23rd anniversary of the first time I saw “Clueless.” It was in July of 1995 at the Oakwood Mall with Kelly, a University of Kentucky photo intern at the Leader-Telegram….
Grieving the Election Day 1: Trying to Find My Hope
I’ve been looking at this empty white box on and off since about 8 o’clock this morning. That’s when I finally made it out of bed though I’d been up since 6. I spent the…
Bragging: The Gifts I Made for Christmas
Pictured above is my seventeen-year-old niece, Jaycie, and the crocheted Grumpy Cat I made for her. Also, I made the blanket that’s in her lap, but it wasn’t nearly as popular as the cat. This…
It (was) Sunday & I (was) Boring: The I forgot to post this edition
So I meant to write the weekly “It’s Sunday & I’m Boring” post last night but I got caught up in the “Downton Abbey” finale and then some other stuff that I can’t remember. This…
On this Galentine’s Day I’m celebrating The Current & Women Who Love the Rock & Roll
According to Councilwoman Leslie Knope of Pawnee, Indiana today is Galentine’s Day. It’s the day before Valentine’s Day when you celebrate all the smart, fabulous women in your life. On this Galentine’s Day, I would…
Undoing all my hard work, or Paw prints in the dust should be the title of my autobiography
This afternoon a photographer from the Strib came over to Supergenius HQ to take my picture. I’m, allegedly, going to be featured in a story about eBooks vs. Regular Books. Much to the photog’s surprise,…
Two things about my beautiful niece on her 14th birthday
First of all, old-timey readers of I Will Dare may be shocked to learn that little Jaycie who looked liked this when I first started blogging is now a young woman of fourteen. People, she…