Cancun

A Little Girl Wearing Red Denim Jeans

“Oh,” Charlie said with a disappointed look on his face as I started to open the box of graham crackers for his afterschool snack. “I thought you said you would buy the cinnamon ones.” “Sorry, Charlie-bear.They didn’t have the cinnamon ones. Do you want these?” “Not really, I like cinnamon.” “Well, these are good too, and we can […]

Gifts

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Joe is the king of quirk when it comes to gifts. One year for our anniversary he took me to an African Lion Safari in Canada, where the baboons tore the antennae off of our car. This Christmas he gave me a butter dish shaped like a Buddha. About a week ago, he received a […]

All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Cancun

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Last week, Joe and I spent five days and four nights at a dental convention in the unbelievably warm Cancun, Mexico. Joe booked this trip rather hastily back in November. Not a man to move quickly, especially when it comes to travel plans, I was suspicious. “Well,” he explained sheepishly. “There are classes.” I told […]