It’s Day 11 of #LoveBlog! Woohoo! Today’s prompt is Perfect Date. Find the rest of the prompts here. Dan and I have two favorite date activities. We love science museums and zoos! If you forced us to pick just one, though, we would pick zoo dates. I can go to the same zoo over and over again, but I usually only want to visit each science museum once a year. In fact, our second date… [Read More]
Saying Good-Bye to Bertha Haugen
Written September 30th. My mom said to cry and to write. I’ve done enough of the former, so it’s time to try the latter. In the 1890s, the Original Brita emigrated from Norway to live in America. She was my great-great-grandmother. In America, she anglicized her name to Bertha and also named her daughter Bertha, who was my great-grandfather’s sister. My great-grandfather Martin then named my grandmother Bertha. The name skipped my mom’s generation, and then… [Read More]
Denver Travels: Exploring Pearl Street
The best part of visiting Denver so often is the freedom to explore new neighborhoods and not just stick to a tourist itinerary of museums (although I love that too!). Our first day in Denver, Dan and I met up with my best friend McPhee at a cute little hipster coffee shop, Steam Espresso on Pearl Street. I ordered an iced green tea with pistachio macarons. McPhee’s assessment that they were almost as good as… [Read More]