Tag Archives: North Carolina

Parental Visit

By Erin | Published: December 14, 2011

My parents came for a brief visit on their way back to sunny Florida (from snowy West Virginia). We had a lot of fun, even if we did only have basically one day. We ran some errands, walked around the Arboretum, shopped at the local Asian market and Carolina Farmin’, drank chai, and ate good [...]

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The Good and the Bad

By Erin | Published: October 31, 2011

Because it would just be plain depressing to end with the bad, let’s start there. The Bad… 1. I did not get to attend a peanut boil this year. If you know me at all, you know how much I look forward to eating boiled peanuts. You know boiled peanuts are the only reason I’m [...]

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Friday Night

By Erin | Published: October 10, 2011

Last Friday night, we went to a volunteer party and hung out with some of our closest friends. We sat on bales of hay and drank Coke out of glass bottles and listened to live bluegrass music. We ate donut holes and ice cream sandwiches and popcorn. We watched the kids dance and go crazy [...]

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Returning

By Erin | Published: September 22, 2011

It’s taken two solid months, but I think I’m finally coming back to earth after San Francisco. I remember the first day we were in the city, on the shared-ride van that drove us from the airport to the apartment—I remember looking out the van’s windows at the highways and the hills and the trees [...]

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Irene

By Erin | Published: August 29, 2011

We had a little unwanted visit from hurricane Irene this weekend, though she grazed us and didn’t make a direct hit in our area. We were very lucky. Jesse and I spent the weekend in Charlotte with Joannie and Tim, eating tons of delicious food and not being kept up at night with gusts of [...]

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