10 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

For The Longest Time

Nine years ago on this day, twelve college students in central Illinois crammed a week’s worth of luggage and themselves into two too-small minivans. Bound for the East Coast and armed with little more than a pitch pipe and our voices, we were a college a cappella group on spring break tour, at the ready [...]

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24 November 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Happy Birthday Molly!

Bad dog mom that I am, I had almost forgotten that today is Molly’s birthday!
I always think her birthday is in February, but that’s actually the anniversary of the day we drove 20 hours round trip in a sleeting-sideways blizzard to pick her up in Missouri, Rob grumbling the whole way there about how he [...]

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