Skinny dipping

Royal majesty

Botanical Gardens of the North Shore.

No Skirt, No Problem

Windy Palms

Can't get enough of the blue or the blowing palms.

Aloha Hawaii!

Diamond Head and the North Shore of Oahu.

Hampton Inn: on my way to Hawaii

New camera too!

First Day of School Fashion Plate and brother

234: Cincinnati is the Most Social City!

We were named "Most Social City" by Mashable.

National Social Media Day: we celebrated in the usual location—the Rookwood Pub.

Updated to add: Sandlot Pictures put together a video presentation of what we're all about and I'm in it. :^)

233: Summer reading

Phantom for me, Count for Caitrin.

232: Clutch

Is this not a great purse?

231: Starbucks

230: No meatballs please

Let's just say that I had my reasons to be at IKEA.

229: Match and OKCupid

Joining the ranks of online dating... Gah!

Profile pic

228: Swag

This is the Syracuse Vineyard gang that happily adopted Liam (red head with orange striped shirt). All week Liam signed the white t-shirts kids wore with the word "swag" and by week's end it became the meme for the whole camp of teens. Caitrin is also on this bus (in the first window). Liam got them chanting, "Liam's mom is pretty." I was putty in their hands after that.

227: SOS Besties

I didn't take this photo but it represents what was going on in our family this week. Caitrin (left) and her best friend, Sarah (right), were at the Vineyard's Summer of Service where over 1000 teens come together to do random acts of kindness in Cincinnati. I think they are also into random acts of silly, too.

226: Nada's

I went out on the town by myself. This is Nada's famous grapefruit margarita. Yes, I had two.

225: Lines

I don't know why I like this photo exactly, but I do. This is the major train track I navigate most days.

224: Happy Father's Day

I was on a memory trip lane this week! This is my dad with me (I was about 5 months). Isn't my dad so cute?

223: Janine!

Blogger friend WritingasJo(e) visited me! We had a lovely vegan dinner on our deck just for her. She's every bit as wonderful in person as online, only oodles more animated! We had the best time. She's my sister from another mister for sure.

222: Noah's birthday

I didn't get to be with Noah on his birthday so I wanted to use an old photo of him from when he was a baby to remember his by. 24 years old! This is my grandmother, Eva, my Mom, Karen and me.