Ironically enough, I titled this blog in relation to one side of the family and am now building a family tree with the other. C’est la vie. I guess I’ll have to figure out how to say that in Chamorro. View more of Christine’s tree | Get your own family tree at Geni.com I have [...]
The system would be me. I seem unable to keep up with anything in the past year. I feel as though things snowballed on me, that I just now noticed. On the up side, I have recently resumed the purge of unnecessary household objects. And have delivered several carloads of stuff that was cluttering up [...]
The past two days I have woken up feeling very blue. For some reason it is bothering me that this is the first Christmas that I will spend without my grandmother. She and I often did not see each other on Thanksgiving or Christmas day, but at other times during the season to celebrate. So [...]
I have a deep and abiding love for trees. I’m told it’s very un-Republican of me. I compost too. When we moved into our house in 2000, I planted over a dozen trees. I was unable to convince DH to buy a lot covered with trees. So I planted some myself. It’s difficult to tell [...]

