Shoes? Check.

Heard this spot on Marketplace Money's Day in the Work Life this morning. The featured worker, Kathryn Kerrigan, is a tall woman with big feet. After wasting far too much time finding less-than-cute shoes for herself, she began her own line of lovelies, sold in sizes 6-16.

I recall days upon days (and my mom will attest to a few tears, too) spent trying to find any pair of jeans that would at the very least touch the top of my feet, let alone express something of my own style. I think that most of us, men and women alike, can relate to this dilemma in some way, because, after all, few of us are a truly average build.

Cheers to you, Ms. Kerrigan, and your entrepreneuring spirit.

Readers, have you found favorite outfitters that make real clothes for real people? Because I still struggle to find good jeans. Ditto for Ben and dress shirts.

Holiday Photos, Part II

We never did finish posting pictures from the second half of our holiday in the Northwest. Here they are.With Jim, our host at the Rain Forest Hostel near Forks, Washington.


On one of our many ferry rides.

In Seattle we spent lunch and an afternoon with my cousin Kristy. Here we are near Pike's Place Market.

At the first Starbuck's. Should have gotten a better picture on such an occasion.


In Vancouver, we stayed with Anneli (Bryan friend) and her husband Cody. They made us a delicious Thai meal.


Henrik is setting out from Cody and Anneli's front door to explore the neighborhood. We like to call him Little Bear.

Father's Day

Ashlee and my parents visited this past weekend. Despite the crazy hot weather we had a good time. Here are a few pictures Ashlee took:

Pounding on the piano...

Afternoon at the country club. Mmm, okay, the Bryan pool.


At the Chattanooga Lookouts game. It was 97 degrees at 7:15pm when the game started. That's actual degrees, not heat index. Ugh.


Low-country boil for Father's Day lunch.

Cleaning

Sorry if your blog has been removed from our sidebar. I took you off if you don't post very often. Hypocritical, perhaps. But it looks nice and neat, don't you think?

Holiday on the Olympic Penninsula

We are about halfway through our holiday. We've planned our trip not as an escape from the day-to-day but as an enrichment of our life together.

The first leg of our journey took us to Whidbey Island for the Summer Institute for Spiritual Formation. Beautiful setting, beautiful people, beautiful time.

The view from our beach on Whidbey.

A harbor seal at Whale Watch Park on Friday Island (no whales, though).

Family picture near the ferry dock on Friday Island.

We are now in the rather quirky Forks, Washington. This is the gateway to the Hoh temperate rainforest and... the setting of the Twilight series. Yes. And we did the tour. We even ran into the Cullens (okay, we were taking a photo of their mailbox) and got autographs and pics with them, so we'll post those soon.

In the rainforest.

Henrik. Because he is cute.