it's happening

This showed up in my inbox today. I'm feeling pretty excited. Correction: seriously excited. 

grandma's dress

This photo is the Petersen family, circa 1967. My mom is the little girl on the right. Stylish bunch, no? My Grandma, an economical woman, learned to sew her own clothes and made a large portion of her wardrobe. 

As she stood outside the Stapleton airport posing for this picture, she was unaware that her yellow linen dress would someday hang freshly cleaned and hemmed in her youngest daughter's daughter's closet, waiting to be worn on her college graduation day. 

As she raised the family standing around her, Charlotte Jane was unaware of the countless people who would be influenced by her and her posterity. She did not know then how far her example would reach and how deeply her love would touch.

a fall retrospective

The very wintery weather today make a fall season retrospective seem appropriate. 

Fall was wonderful. In between the hours and hours of studying, we made some time to enjoy the season, with 

photo trips to the mountains

family birthdays

a peaceful and surreal weekend in an abandoned lake town

instagram photos of seasonal baking

i now extend a warm welcome to winter. i look forward to several mugs of hot cocoa, time with family (home for thanksgiving in one week!), knitting, knitting, and knitting.

education gap

Two incidents in my accounting ethics class today reaffirmed to me that some accounting students are missing some crucial aspects of academic understanding. 

Professor: "What did Machiavelli write?"

Student: "The Little Prince"

Professor: Talking about Ayn Rand and her philosophical views

Another student: "Didn't she write The Scarlet Letter?"

I suggest the addition of a couple of extra literature courses to the accounting curriculum. 

cloudy with a chance of curry

We drove home to Midway tonight in a cloudy rain drizzle.
I made red coconut curry and rice.
We ate red coconut curry and rice with glasses of cold milk and an episode of Psych.



I listened to a fantastic Spotify playlist and kitchen danced.
I love my nights at home with Mr. Z.




{on my playlist}

• Origins, by Tennis
• Blood, by The Middle East
• Mountain Sound, by Of Monsters and Men
• The A Team, by Ed Sheeran