If I had a penny for every day that I complained about waking up early to teach at 6am, I would have retired years ago. I am not an early riser, and though I live and breathe for my classroom, I always fantasized about starting the day with normal people at 8
Peace out, WNY, it’s going to be 83 degrees in Del Rio, Texas tomorrow and there is a little lady I’m dying to see. The moment I knew my niece was on the way, I signed up for a travel rewards credit card. I signed up for an account with American Airlines
We love wine. But somewhere in there, Scott got it in his mind that opening a cocktail bar was the dream. When I met Scott, he couldn’t mix a drink to save his life (love you, babe. Really). And though he grew leaps and bounds in our final year living in DC,
6 years ago today, Scott and I were pinching each other under the table in a new restaurant in the middle of Chinatown, DC. We had only been really blogging for three months and had MAYBE 100 Twitter followers. The only people reading our blog were related to us by blood, and
I should have written a New Year’s post when I still had overwhelming optimism for 2020. And then there was Iran. And Australia. And Kobe & Gigi. And earthquakes in Puerto Rico. And my entire heart and soul is praying for health for a colleague and Medina friend who has been diagnosed
It’s not news that we have *somewhat* majorly fallen off the blogging train. But in our defense, our life in DC was wildly more compatible with the time necessary to run and maintain a full-time blog. In those days, our little baby, our brainchild was DC Minute. We used it as a
We are Scott and Al, the brains and brawn behind this blog. We've been writing for 10 years together, chronicling our adventures in DC and WNY, our love of food and drink, reinventing our farmhouse, and now our journey as new parents!