Let us pause for a moment of Erin...

Last night was one of those nights where some old friends come together to watch some old found VHS tapes, hoping to strike gold on memories. We did strike some gold. I find it to be a happy thought for me that such an object as an old VHS tape could hold such memories for me and my friends. When most people look at a VHS tape now-a-days, they think things like, how old school, or let's walk back into the stone age with that thing. VHS are now a thing of the past. I can remember when they were the very present. Every day when I went to school, I glanced at the VCR to make sure it was set to tape General Hospital. When I went out with the girls on Saturday night, I made sure SNL was going to be recorded. VHS were like a small lifeline to me. Now my DVR is my dear friend. We have made such advances in technology that a VCR looks like a pain to even mess with. I think about how I went from VCR, to TiVo, (I still miss my TiVo. I used to refer to him as the best boyfriend I ...

I learned that I would love, love, love to have Craig Ferguson's job! I am not kidding at all when I say I would give up the teaching business, pick up and move to California if he called me today and said - be my co-host! Let me back track a little here. One of the things I love to do on vacation is to stay up late and watch TV and movies. I don't know why, but for some reason, the later in the night it gets, the better the TV and movies are for me. I have always liked the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, but never got in the daily habit of watching it until this summer. My DVR has been set every night to tape this piece of hilariousness. (of course that's a word!) During my vacation, I just stayed up and watched it. I would laugh so much at this show, I would not be able to fall asleep for a while after watching it. I would be wide awake again and no where near ready for bed. So now that I am back to work, I DVR it, and watch it the next day. There are so ma...

My grandmother was an amazing woman. She was a woman who changed my life and helped make me the woman I am today. When I was growing up, I was fortunate enough to get to see my grandmother almost every day. In all that time together, she made such an impression on me. She showed me so many things, and taught me so much about life. I have so many memories, that it is hard to just pick a few to share about her impact on my life. She told me I could do anything I wanted. If I told her I wanted to be a veterinarian she would say things like, wouldn't that be fun to work with sweet animals all day. If I said I wanted to travel the world, she would say something like, how interesting to see so many different places. I told her once that I wanted to stay at home and be a mother, she said well you can do that, but you do so much more too. She never told me that I couldn't do something. She never discouraged, only encouraged. She taught me to not be too scared to try new thing...