tuesday 11.17.09

out on a walk with ryan and liza. got back from my colorectal cancer prevention initiative meeting right as ryan was taking dog out to let out some of her energy. joined them for the 30 or so minute walk around the neighborhood. november is so beautiful this 2009.


-bkh

monday 10.05.09

happy birthday, dad!

took a walk to hilldale mall. in the clearance room at anthropologie. checking out the pretty color shirts dresses pants skirts etc. i can barley justify buying things on clearance – and even then is usually the bottom of the barrel multiple mark down clothes. so i don’t even bother anywhere in the store but clearance, fitting room, and register. my bank account appreciates my self-restraint.


-bkh

thursday 09.10.09

genoa, italia. the birthplace of christopher columbus. and pesto. doing a solo self-guided walking tour of the town. on ‘via garibaloli’ – a historic street in the city. littered with old architecture. beautiful. there are zippy moped/little bikes everywhere, such as the ones i imagine the couple walking towards me are headed to.


-bkh

sunday 08.23.09

walking the streets of dublin. unlike london, dublin is very walkable. no need for a bus or train around the city. coming from a delicious early evening at the guiniess brewery and heading back (with a pub stop or two) to the hostel. the walk was maybe twenty-five minutes, and we’re been told it’s the farthest walk in dublin. perfect.


-bkh

tuesday 06.09.09

grabbed my journal, yoga magazine, and thermos of red wine and headed off into hoyt park. the june magazine featured an article on discovering, or realizing i suppose, what you are committed to. the magazine offered journal prompts, which i gladly took. i, unfortunately though, underestimated how much wine a half a thermos holds. and i unfortunately realized this when i stood up to walk home after an hour of journaling. whoops. guess that’s how i roll on a tuesday evening.


-bkh

saturday 06.06.09

'why don't you kick yourself out - you're an immigrant too?'

unplugging the charging ipod for a jog. exploring the streets of the neighborhood. so far this summer i’ve found hoyt and quary parks within one block of my place (who knew?) this time around i found a playground park. swung on the swing to the delicious sounds of jack & meg white. after a bit a mom and son came to play. my new friend, felix, was very happy to make small chat about his name. then i had flashes of ‘little children’ and felt like the awkward twenty-five year old swinging on the swing at a playground, so i left. ehhhh…


-bkh

friday 06.05.09

just getting back from a hike with liza. up around and through hoyt park. i don’t think we saw a single person on the trails. disappointing, considering how perfect it was. but good cuz that way when she poops on the trail, i can push it into the woods without feeling bad/worrying someone saw me. (gross.)


-bkh

saturday 05.16.09

taking liza on a hike through hoyt park. i tied her up to a tree and climbed a bit on the rocks. i only made it as far as can be seen here, because apparently liza does not like to be tied to a tree. and decided to make this known to me and the rest of the neighborhood. it’s not as though she didn’t have enough energy drained over the afternoon. erin graduated from her mba that afternoon so her fam, including two young nephews, were in town at the place. the two little fellas threw the ball for her and chased her around the backyard like she’s never seen.


-bkh

thursday 03.26.09

'find love, and give it all away...'


out for a walk at twilight. or dusk. or both? that was the topic of conversation on the phone with reina (and neil) as i was headed out. later it was discovered that 'twilight' is under the umbrella term 'dusk', though twilight is not part of dawn. i will defer to reina to explain.


-bkh

thursday 03.19.09

walking liza. you can't see her probably because she's pooping somewhere for the 8th time. sigh. i headed up a road i hadn't been too far on in my neighborhood and found a park. a big park. a beautiful park. with a beautiful view. who knew? just right there a block or two from me. i am not an observant gal, this i know. but COME ON. how did i miss THIS since august and before?


-bkh

tuesday 03.17.09

heading out for a walk (in my new shoes!) well, the second walk of the night. liza (the dog) and i went for a walk for a bit before. but she kept pooping. so she went home and i headed out solo. what you can't see, though, is that i'm on the phone with my good friend from college, kara larson. talking together all the way from atlanta, ga. the (semi-)newly engaged kara and i were able to catch up on our lives from the past few months. we spent almost an hour talking before she had to get back to life in the atlanta time zone.


-bkh

thursday 02.05.09

it's a crazy mixed up world...

walking liza. she gets needy when she isn't walked regularly (dogs are funny that way). she won't leave our sides...lays her head in our laps...drags ryan's underpants into the backyard... maybe dog people use words like 'adorable' or 'endearing' to describe that. but i'm not a dog person. liza hadn't burned off that energy for a day or two, which means the backyard is full of fun stuff. we went for a walk since the weather was being agreeable.

-bkh