Today my sister, Elizabeth Swift Timms, would have turned 37. For a long time I’ve known that today would be a very difficult day so I felt it was appropriate on her birthday not to mourn but to indeed celebrate her remarkable life. Exactly 2 months ago we held her Celebration of Life in Houston,…
I can’t really read this screen to type properly. I had to zoom in as far as possible and close one eye because my eyesight is horrible with both. Thus the need for my blog posts to be heavily edited by “Eli the Pirate” and all members of my family. So, what you are reading…
Recently it seems like every day is Groundhog’s Day, the comedy starring Bill Murray and that chick from the Hugh Grant movie about weddings and funerals. No matter what I do at night, the morning is always the same. When Jon’s alarm goes off, I wake up dizzy, but I need to pee, even though…
Does your family have a fundamental difference when it comes to grocery shopping? Does the way that someone shops for food on a weekly/daily basis make you mad? In all the times that my parents have been down to Chile to take care of me, I think they have seen the inside of the Jumbo…
Last Monday, I voluntarily checked myself into the hospital to have a little surgery on my brain. The doctors, Jon, and my parents kept telling me it was a normal procedure and that many people have wires and small boxes in their head. When Dr. M arrived home from vacation, he did his due diligence,…
What do you say to the person you love most in the world on their wedding day? Well, I still don’t know, but this is what I said.
For an expat, the concept of “home” is difficult to define. Is it the country you are currently living in? Is it the place where you grew up? Is it the city where you attended university? On my recent trip to the states, I thought a lot about the concept of home. Two weeks ago…
The Luckiest Unlucky Girl 