Six years ago, as I was preparing to move back to Spain, I wanted a means of communicating with people at home, of sharing photos, something beyond group emails. And so I decided, hesitantly, to start a blog.
Six years later, that blog has become this space.
This blog has taken me from Montana to Spain, back to Montana and then to Texas.
From teaching to being unemployed to working to being back in school (while teaching and working).
It has been here through two new cameras, and actually starting to learn photography. Discovering that I really love it, too.
Through births and deaths. Birthdays and breakups. Travel and quiet evenings at home. The ends of things and the starts of things and that weird in-between.
Over the past six years, I’ve posted, on average, about once a week. That’s nothing compared to many bloggers, but much more than others. But if there’s anything I’m slowly learning, it’s that it doesn’t matter. So please humor me while I lay on the cheese for a moment. I’m happy to have this space. I’m happy to get the chance to write here, or post some pictures, to have the chance to share with some old friends and to make some new ones, too. It’s been a small thing, this blog, but I have approached it with a lot of love.
So I thought it would be fun to highlight some of my favorite posts, the ones that have stuck with me. Maybe you’ll remember one, too?
2013
+ Reminiscing, Holiday in Spain (parts 1, 2, 3)
2012
+ Lifelist check: Counting Crows live
+ Writers are people who write
+ The up and onward and not the over and out
+ Thoughts on writing (and finding the time)
+ On super clean showers and having beautiful days
+ Fairfield (not far from Freezeout Lake)
2011
+ Whatever happened to romantic comedies?
+ 30 Days of Creativity: Day 17 (Friday morning ritual)
+ 30 Days of Creativity: Day 3
+ Mimi, and writing about grief
2010
+ The year (of food) in photos
+ Working and happiness and other Sunday night thoughts
2009
2008
+ An autumn weekend in Glacier
+ Noah
+ Whatever happened to Thanksgiving?
+ Lots of cheers (ok, and a fair amount of tears, too)
+ Paris in the (almost) springtime
+ On being extranjera (foreign)
2007
I expect no one to read them all, or to come close, but it was fun to go back. Perhaps there are some discoveries here for someone.
Who knows how long I’ll keep doing this. But I just renewed my domain for another year. I’m approaching this summer with excitement on many fronts, one of them related to posting here more often. This little space has become my little space, and I’m happy to continue to call it home.
You are welcome here, my blog friends, and I am thankful to share this space with you. Six years! Pretty hard to believe.
(image from Parker Fitzgerald, via flickr. The phrase always reminds me of my grandma, Mimi.)
And, because my photography posts are rarely complete without food, lemon poppyseed muffins with a lemon glaze. Last Sunday morning.
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
