So now I figured out pictures...

...at least a little bit. Still need to learn how to adjust the size of the photo, but that will come, I'm sure.
This photo is a summery (pun intended!) of my long-time friendship and summer visits with two dear friends, Alice and Susan. We met as teachers at Incarnation School, in Centerville, Ohio, where I still teach. A little over 15 years ago, Alice and her husband moved back to Bucks County, PA, where they have a lovely country home. She invited several of us to come for a visit and Susan and I took her up on it. Little did we know how this would blossom into an amazing friendship far beyond what we had in Ohio!

Susan and her husband eventually moved to Boston, MA, Alice is still in PA, and I am still here in "warm and cheerful" (it's on all the signs around our little city) Centerville, Ohio. I found these wine goblets at the Cincinnati airport while waiting for a flight to Florida for one of our girlfriend get-aways to celebrate our 10th summer together. Now these colorful goblets are a part of every evening we spend together, no matter where we happen to be that year. This year, it was Marco Island in celebration of 15 years of sharing life's highs and lows, joys and sorrows, and just plain having fun together!

Clueless in Ohio....

Since I've never considered myself to be very computer savy, this is going to be another one of my "fly by the seat of my pants" adventures. It began with Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family in between visits and reunions and has ended up with random wanderings onto the blogs and websites of women like me who are trying to figure out how to balance faith, family, friendships, and careers with a love for something that always gets put on the "back burner" of life. In my case, it's my love for creating art.

I'm an art teacher, so one would think I'd carve out the time to keep myself fresh by creating art, but that just doesn't seem to happen very often. My hope is that by adding new friends from the blogging community I'll find the inspiration to make my own art happen more often and a forum for the three things that shape my life...faith, family, and friendships.