I am so proud of my friends Jordan and Max.  Jordan is off to the Marshall Islands to teach with WorldTeach and Max is off to South Africa with the Peace Corps.  I have cherished these last few days with them so much – enjoying food with friends and family, laughing, singing, dancing… here’s to watching the mailbox, and to having two really good reasons to start printing and mailing out my photographs again.

I was happy to enjoy a traditional fourth of July weekend of eating, sleeping, and playing outdoors with my family.  Every time we observe this tradition I find myself asking why we don’t do things like this more often.  As far as family outings go, it’s hard to beat frisbee, fishing, burgers and boat rides…