Category: Me

  • Ten pounds less of ME

    Ten pounds less of ME

    This morning when I got on the scale I saw a lovely number I hadn’t seen in over a year: 182. Which meant, much to my delight, that I have now hit the 10 pound mark in the great initiative to lose 42 pounds by June! So yeah, thus far the whole LoseIt app on…

  • Another awesome picture

    Another awesome picture

    I wanted to give this one a post all by itself. Ladies and gentlemen, from April 12, 1968, I give you my father and mother, Donald Ray and Judith Elaine Highland. And if my calculations are correct, on that date, I’m only a short time away from being more than a gleam in my father’s…

  • Whoa! Family history FTW!

    Whoa! Family history FTW!

    My little sister sent me a lovely, lovely thing in email today: a whole bunch of scanned-in copies of old photographs from our grandmother. Nearly 10 megs’ worth. I’m not going to post them all, but I totally need to share a couple of them with you. This first one is in Naples, Italy, in…