Month: February 2007

  • Project Sheets & Towels

    Casa Santiago, the sister orphanage of the one I visited in Nicaragua, is in need of new towels and sheets for the children’s beds. If you’re interested in helping out, please see the link below to sponsor one. Sheets are $10 each, towels are only $5. Learn More About Giving a Sheet or Towel NPH…

  • Spa Noir in Belltown

    Last week Irene, Chrysti and I treated Val to a massage for her birthday. And what better way to celebrate your friend’s birthday than to join her? So that’s what we did. We went to Spa Noir in Belltown and needless to say, it was a pretty euphoric experience. They even gave us our own…

  • Kite Runner

    It’s been a while since I’ve stumbled upon a phenomenal book. I finished reading Kite Runner by Jhaled Hosseini last weekend and it really blew me away. The review from the Washington Post Book World sums it up well: “A powerful book… no frills, no nonsense, just hard, spare prose… an intimate account of family…

  • Changing it Up

    Oh look, a new WordPress template! Was hankering to use more of that horizontal real estate that the old layout did not afford. Still playing with this theme though, so little things will be changing. Much thanks to Ryan for letting me use his photo for a header. 😉

  • Atlanta View

    View from hotel room last week in Atlanta, GA

  • Week in Florida

    Happy to report there’s free Wifi in the Ft. Lauderdale airport. So I leave to Atlanta today and I must say, this is probably one of the better trips I’ve had out to Florida. It was on business, but it was good meeting a client with whom I had exchanged so many e-mails and phone…

  • En Route to Florida

    “Note to self, when traveling to the east coast, book outgoing flight no later than 11AM and no earlier than 7AM,” I thought to myself as I took a seat at the gate for my 6AM flight to Atlanta. A middle-aged man across from me looked up and smiled. “How you doin’?” he asked. “Good,…