Where’s Your Sense of Adventure?

eric + leandra travel around the globe

spring cleaning

Our closets are looking a whole lot roomier after a good spring cleaning… these items will be picked up by the VVA sometime today.

a lazy day for some of us

I spent the morning at Urban Ministries in Durham weeding their outdoor family area while Eric picked up a bunch of new plants, fruits and sunflowers at the farmer’s market in Raleigh. As soon as I got home, I was put to work helping Eric clean all the windows...

Finally published

Several weeks ago I had a paper from my UNC days accepted to PLOS Genetics… today it was officially released online: “Systematic Identification of Balanced Transposition Polymorphisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”. Careful, don’t read it all at...

a long overdue ceiling fan upgrade for the kitchen

We have been wanting to replace the old light fixture in the kitchen with a ceiling fan for awhile now, but other projects took priority, you know, like three bathrooms worth of wallpaper removal. Three visits to Lowe’s in the last several weeks and we...

little black dress

One of my favorite online reads is Maggie Mason’s “Mighty Girl” blog since it’s always chock full of style and great quips. Recently, she highlighted a friend’s closet for the new feature called Mighty Closet. Her friend wears dresses as...