Tonight is the premiere of the show Resurrection on ABC (9 pm EST) and I couldn't be more excited. Based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott, it follows the lives of the returned, or people who had died and are returned to their families years after they were buried. The consequences are both heartwarming and devastating and I'm excited to see how closely the show follows … [Read more...]
Road Trip to the Badlands
So this past week has been a whirlwind of events. My location of business hosts an event that draws over 120,000 within a three day period each year, so I had my hands pretty full. Of course, it was great to have a weekday off after the whole ordeal and my husband and I took an impromptu road trip to the Badlands in South Dakota. We drove the 7 hours there, watched the sun … [Read more...]
Visitors and Mount Evans
Last weekend I had some friends come into town from our old stomping ground in North Carolina to celebrate one of their 30th birthdays. It was a jam-packed weekend and, although I was exhausted by the end of it, it was a BLAST. Over the course of a few days, we visited the Coors Brewery, went to a Rockies baseball game, hit up the Downtown Chalk Art Festival, and drove up to … [Read more...]
The Book Wheel Relocates
Last month The Book Wheel (meaning me) relocated from North Carolina to Colorado. It was a big move, but one my husband and I have been planning for the past year. The reason we moved was because I finished my degree in Political Science and will be attending graduate school. We were lucky in that my husband found a job out west much more quickly than we had expected, and so he … [Read more...]