Celebrating Changes!
This year offered challenges, changes, and celebrations in many forms, each an opportunity for growth and reflection. Continue reading
2018 Christmas Letter
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Drum recital
During my sabbatical for the 2017-18 academic year, I vowed to take advantage of the additional available time to do things I “always wished I was able to do.”
One of those things was to learn more about drumming. I discovered the Women’s Drum Center (www.womensdrumcenter.org) in St. Paul, where classes are offered ad hoc. It is a stimulating, welcoming, and encouraging environment, and I have truly enjoyed participating and learning. Continue reading
2018 European Vacation, part 1
Rick and Judy and Elise and Anna enjoyed a two-week excursion to Europe in May 2018.
Here is a (detailed) overview of our trip… (Click on each section to expand the text. [I am in the process of compiling this, so entries with fewer than 50 words have not yet been completed.]) Continue reading
HELP! Skyler needs a tooth
Watch a riveting story about rogue tooth fairies and restraints imposed on their rambunctious raillery … only from Elise Navidad.
2017 Christmas letter
Back to Banff: Reliving their epic “ROAD TRIP!” from 2015, Rick and Judy returned to Banff National Park, and environs, in Canada.
Emptier Nest
Rick and Judy even managed to attend a Vikings game this year at the new US Bank stadium, site of Super Bowl LII in 2018.**
After dabbling in fits and starts through various iterations over the past half decade of an “empty (or nearly) nest,” Rick and Judy experienced the first full year completely on their own in 2017—the first year since 1990 and the advent of kids, that is! We still have frequent contact with our girls and their men (We LOVE it and them!) but we no longer have anyone else living with us.*
“Elise’s” room is now the “guest room,” and “Anna’s” room is now the “office.” They both still have things here in storage (after all, RICK still has things at his mom’s house!) but all that is tucked away out of sight.