Jessica's Journal

The bad thing about leaving your windows open on a beautiful but windy day? You come home to to a pollen-covered house. Good thing Josh and I are all stocked up on allergy medicine. I’ve been playing around with light metering, auto focus, and other manual mode settings on my D-SLR, trying to apply what […]

I haven’t been too happy with my SLR photos lately. I’ve been trying some new techniques I learned in my photography class, but I need a lot of work. So in the meantime, please enjoy some sunset photos I’ve captured with my iPhone. 🙂

The flowers that Josh picked for me are starting to shed their petals. This is kind of how I envision my life lately — with parts falling off and scattering all around. I’m trying to put it all back together, and make it more beautiful this time. I guess it’s time to go out and

I had to break out the ol’ sewing kit tonight to patch up one of Josh’s stuffed animals. Every time I do so, I think of my Nana, thimble on her index finger, sewing, knitting, cross-stitching (in fact, I found one of my old cross-stitch pieces in there). My great-grandma was a seamstress and I

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to try to relive a part of my youth. My friend (who I met in high school at a taping of the Mickey Mouse Club, in Florida, only to find out we lived two hours apart) and I went to see Boyz II Men, 98 Degrees and NKOTB at

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.” ― George S. Patton Jr.

I explored Quincy MA and the surrounding area with my friend on Sunday. She used to live near the USS Massachusetts in Fall River. Now she’s found a new battleship to live near.

Joshua’s friend had a birthday party at the Providence Children’s Museum today. We had a blast playing in all of the exhibits.

Rainy days can be beautiful, too.

Josh came home from Grandma’s with a new solar dancer toy. He was excited about his hula girl. And so it begins…