first date with dan. <3

We've been planning a trip with some friends to the Great Sand Dunes for a while.  With everything else going on, this was just about the only weekend we could do it.  And we all agreed it would just be a day trip.  To be honest, I wasn't real big on the idea at first, because, hol...  read more

matt and i went to puerto vallarta to celebrate our 1.5-year anniversary. it was the perfect getaway.

Today is the one-year anniversary of my first story on Dandelife.One incredible year, strung out on reading and writing stories like some crack-head that stumbled upon a huge stash.Yes, we all have Kelly Abbott and the entire Dandelife team to thank for adding to the pool of Internet Addicts.&nbs...  read more

сегодня ровно два года как мы поженились с Зариной. Приличный срок. За это время мы успели родить Диерку, вырастить из нее человечка умеющего ходить и болтать на своем языке, обустроить квартиру, купить машину, выиграть лотерею, пару сотен раз поссориться и еще больше раз помириться. Вобщем жиз...  read more

I wanted so much for our first big marriage milestone to be a big memorable escapade somewhere exotic, but two small children and tight finances conspired against me.It is our tenth wedding anniversary on June 21, 2007.  What to do, what to do?  I thought about it for weeks.  I hav...  read more

Everybody gathered in San Diego at the Hotel Del Coronado to celebrate Howard and Jane's 60th anniversary (and Rick and Chris's 33rd!). We ate extravagantly, talked a lot, and saw wild animals.   read more

A floating anniversary somewhere between Bahia de Los Angeles and Agua Verde, Sea of Cortez, on the Petrel. I remember watching Jane's and Howard's faces by the light of a ragtag collection of candles atop a ragtag chocolate cake and thinking, wow, Mr. and Mrs. Wright are ancient (maybe even ov...  read more

It has been five years since we started Red Door.  It sorta just crept up on us, so we weren't really all that prepared.  I suppose that I feel like it is just five years of many more, so why the big hubbub. We brought in bagels, OJ, coffee (to supplement the coffee maker we already ha...  read more