LOS EXTRAÑAMOS A TODOS

Los extrañamos a todos. We miss y’all. Well, sort of. You will be reading this around the same time the Cuba mission team will be arriving in Havana, and I’m sure we will be missing all of you back home. We will have already driven to GSP airport (at 4:30 in the morning!), had our […]
It’s Baby Time

Unless Baby Boy Plating decides to make his debut early, my last day of work before maternity leave will be this Sunday, February 17th. I am so excited to be spending 12 weeks at home with baby – recovering, bonding, bouncing, burping, learning about each other and from each other, and being generally exhausted(!). The […]
The Branch — February 4, 2019

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Rustlings (February 4, 2019)

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….well, a long time ago…LPs were the dominant musical medium. LP (long playing) records spun on a record player at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute (rpm) and contained multiple songs on each side. Single song records spun on the record player at 45 revolutions per minute […]
Music from the Edge

WINTER MUSIC SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10, 10:30AM NITA STRAUSS Nita Strauss has been named #1 Female Rock Guitarist in the world. She is tour guitarist for Alice Cooper, has just released and toured a solo album Controlled Chaos, is the first woman to have a ‘signature guitar’ produced by Ibanez, and on top of all that…she […]
The Branch — January 28, 2019

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The Branch — January 22, 2019

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Rustlings (January 22, 2019)

It’s probably on your back burner. Maybe you’ve set the idea aside because you truly believe you do not need it. Maybe you’ve set it aside because you’re not sure it’s worth the cost. Maybe it just got lost in the shuffle of a hundred other things you are presently doing and a hundred more […]
The Branch — January 14, 2019

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Rustlings (January 14, 2018)

10,000 steps a day. That’s the magic number. 10,000 steps. I have not hopped on the Fitbit (or the iWatch or the Garmin) bandwagon. One, I’m not drawn toward technology – it tends to frustrate and scare me – and two, I already employ a fitness regimen that has served me well for years. I […]