Hi! My name is Luke and this is a blog about my family and I: parenting, friends, weekend trips, and some challenging things we navigate as well.
This blog is just an archive for my own memories: “These are the good years” I often say. Some day things will change, but for now, things are pretty good, and I keep this blog as a memory of that.
Marriage is great, and being a dad is funny and hard, that’s why the tag for this blog is “proud supporters of fun and failures”, because if you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point?
Anyways, enjoy the blog!
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Taylor’s Funky Fresh Fortieth
Taylor wanted two things for her birthday: And a few months ago- plot twist! – she asked me to be in charge of planning it. After my extensive track record of planning exactly 0 parties, this was gonna be a blast. Fast forward past the months of prepping the house each weekend to make things…
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Merriewold and more
This was a big week. After years and years of talking about it, we made the plunge: driving just short of 10 hours north to the most special place of my life: Merriewold park. Our family had only driven 3.5 hour trips before- to and from the coast of North Carolina- so there were a…
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Tropea: Southern Italian Adventure
The last 4 days of our trip were in Tropea. Why Tropea? That is a question I have gotten never, but I still think I need to explain it. When planning, I simply bought a large map of Italy, and googled things; the map gave me a better since of how far things were from…
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Meet Hazy
The SPCA of Greensboro just got a puppy that was likely part of an unwanted litter. Her picture was just listed on their website, and if it was anything like the other pet adoption places I was looking at, she would be gone really quickly. Rosie, Mercy I and headed over to their place: 20…
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Capri is fancier than me.
After 3 days in Rome, we headed to Capri via Pompeii. Why Capri? We wanted to see the beach, and I looked at lots of places around Italy, and it seemed like Capri was a fun little spot; not because it has beach (the only beach is tiny, just like everything else on the island).…
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Is Rome worth it? Yes. Yes it is.
I love church history, and in Rome, the history of the church spills out from the Vatican into many different places around the city, and my goal was to see as many of the Holy Relics around the city as possible. Was it worth it? It was even more special than I could have imagined,…
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Good job, Stormy
Caution: This might be hard to read. I had to tell the story though. Proceed with caution, this is a tear jerker. “You did a good job Stormy; you did a good job.” I kept saying this over and over again. Taylor, Rose and Mercy had left the room. It was just the vet, me,…
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Spring, 2025
After a few weeks (months?) its hard to know where to start; there has been a lot going on. There has been a lot going on, but the reason I haven’t written anything is because I have been busy planning our next big trip, and it is a masterpiece. Just last week, Mercy graduated off…
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A big number birthday
People ask me “What does it feel like to turn 40?”. The answer is that I threw away all of my white socks, and went to Costco and bought 36 new pairs of identical white socks. That was a few weeks ago, and I cannot explain how helpful that decision has been. Also: Taylor threw…