Two months ago, we flew to Boston to attend PAX East and to visit our friends who live there. Not only have I neglected to write about this trip for two months, I never even wrote about the PAX that we attended in Seattle two years ago. PAX is the abbreviation for the Penny Arcade
There aren’t too many things that I’m afraid of. Drowning, definitely. Public embarrassment, sure. But I’m not afraid of the dark, I don’t get nervous when I fly, and I’m even starting to overcome my aversion to creepy crawlies. However, there is one thing that really unnerves me – more than spiders, snakes, worms, even
I’ve never been much into exercise. We trained for and ran in a 10K race a few years ago, and it was brutal. We’ve never had a gym membership, and we make excuses to not go for a run in our neighborhood – it’s too hot, it’s too cold, the roads are too busy. Even
Every week (well, almost every week), we try to get together with our friends for a LAN. A LAN, or a LAN party, is when your friends bring their computers to your house and hook them up on the local area network (the LAN) so you can play video games together. This was popular before
A few months ago, we celebrated my grandparents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary. Here’s a photo of them when they were my age. How amazing is my grandmother’s blue dress?! She has always had flawless style. They arrived at my parents’ house for what they thought would be an intimate lunch with their two daughters and their
Lauren Newman lives in Richmond, Virginia. She majored in urban planning, married her high school sweetheart, and dreams about moving to Mexico. More »
