June 2008 It had to happen at some point during my Parisian au pair stint...un français et moi, a Frenchie and me! Despite my mantras of, "I'm independent here….I'm not looking…
April 2008 There are moments which may seem insignificant at the time, but upon later reflection, these moments are of utmost importance. I spent a semester in Aix-en-Provence, in the…
December 2007 Doug and Regina Shayne, Stacy, Tonya, Tosha (and me) (Enter Michelle, Mark and Mike from stage left) And thus you have: Torey Elizabeth, Dalton Briggs, Danielle Bailey, Drew…
December 2007 After graduating from college and before settling into anything too serious, I worked for a a strong, persistent, creative, artistic woman. She weathered the storms for years in…
December 2007 “I like your jacket,” I told her from across the cash register. She proceeded to show me how she had covered the Abercrombie identity of the gifted jacket…
December 2007 I put her in my phone book as “Carrie I Made It” before I had even met her. In the mere semester I had spent reading, writing and…
December 2007 I used to run what I called a “lemonade revolution” as part of my sandwich and salad-slinging job at The Red Oak Café. In reality, I ran a lemonade…
December 2007 Our friendship really took flight on an architecture studio field trip to the windy city. The three of us girls wanted to see as much as possible. We…