Welcome!!

Dearest Friends and Family,

Welcome to my blogspot!! I'm so excited to FINALLY get this thing going. Between packing and shopping and scheduling and balancing my time between a currently disjointed family and friends and a lovely boyfriend, and fretting about all of the above, starting this blog was just another stressor to add to the extensive TO-DO list that I needed to accomplish before I left. Regardless and with enough pressure from my friends, somehow I found the time to sit down and make my first entry in between deciding which books to pack- which if you know me well enough, will understand that this is an immensely difficult undertaking for me. As an English Lit. and History major, I crave and devour books in the same way that Bruce Bogtrotter craves and devours the first slice of Mrs. Trunchbull's epic chocolate cake. So if you're curious... with painful deliberation I think that I've narrowed it down for the first three months to Tolstoy, Intimacy with the Almighty, A tale of Two Cities, and On the Road. Good idea? other suggestions? (which is a good time to say that if you want to send me something while I'm gone, a book is the greatest idea- and you can never go wrong with anything modern, transnational, or classic or any personal favorites, but really I read everything even the "bad" stuff because as I remember, Benjamin Franklin advised the generations to read widely and be self-educated and it clearly helped him ) But I digress.

Although I've been told that I have quality writing skills, bear with me while I navigate through the blogosphere for my first time. I hope that this blog serves you and me well as a place for me to spew some of my experiences and for you to be entertained, to enjoy, console and feel closer to me while I volunteer in Ukraine for the next 27 months. More about that....