About a month ago, I chaperoned my tenth-grade class to Washington, D.C. on their annual five-day field trip. Not only did I lead the trip, but I also had spent the entire year planning and preparing for this adventure. Therefore, the trip entailed:33 teenage girls4 chaperones (including me)1 long-suffering bus driver1 viewing of National Treasure and… Continue reading Mount Vernon
Category: adventure
Supposedly delicious
Every now and then I flip through the Williamsburg cookbook, looking for my next culinary adventure, and one of those recipes jumps out at me. You know, the ones that are a little, well, too adventurous.After the steak and kidney pie disaster, I've become much more hesitant about leaping into the unknown. I'll consider a recipe… Continue reading Supposedly delicious
Kitchen garden (I)
I've thought about starting my own little garden for a while now. My front windows are filled with plants, sure, but of the amaryllis and African violet variety rather than the edible kind.When I graduated from college and first started living on my own, my parents gave me a set of lucky bamboo as a… Continue reading Kitchen garden (I)
Snowstorm
Last weekend, Josh and I drove to visit his family in Connecticut. We headed down on Saturday morning, planning to celebrate his birthday with pizza and card games.Except we hadn't reckoned on a snowstorm.It was October, all right? It doesn't snow in October. Especially not when the trees are still full of red and gold… Continue reading Snowstorm
Abby Murphy 