Crystal’s Adventures

In a Mother Jones article entitled “No Bar Code”, organic farmer Joel Salatin explains, “whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it’s actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that, with our food, all of the costs are figured into the price. [...]

The National Organization for Women (NOW) President, Kim Gandy, is such a firecracker. I love her bi-weekly column, called Below the Belt. Here’s the latest: “Are You Pre-Pregnant?”

Magnum in Motion is a Web site full of startling and thought-provoking “photo essays”. These essays are really slideshows, in which you view heartbreakingly beautiful photographs while listening to commentary by the photographers. The ones I really liked were Chernobyl Legacy and Vietnam at Peace. They’re all so good that I honestly cannot stop - [...]

Three nights in Hot-lanta!
June 11-14 I was in Atlanta with my boss for the CDC Evaluation Institute. Among the highlights was arriving on the train from the airport in 100 degree downtown Atlanta and getting completely lost. I didn’t think that my hotel - the huge Marriott Marquis - would be so tricky to find. [...]

This past weekend we made a special trip out to Jordan Lake Recreational Area, 15 miles south of Durham, to take Charlie on his first swimming adventure. At first he was a little bit nervous about the noisy waves lapping against the shore. But once he jumped in, we couldn’t tear him away from the [...]

Click on any of the links below for slideshows of our new photos.
Easter trip to Upper Marlboro, Maryland - April 2006
Tulane graduation photos! Awesome!
Our Memorial Day Weekend trip to Montana
New photos of Charlie!

In no particular order:

On the Border (Mexican)
Chosun Ok (Korean)
Maggiano’s Little Italy (Italian)
The Firebird Grill (American)
Thailanna (Thai)
Neomonde (Middle Eastern)
Hunan (Chinese)
The Village Deli
Azitra (Indian)
Cookout (Hamburgers)