Rocking Like a Wagon Wheel

Tar Heel. Amateur runner. Book lover. Obsessed dog owner.

[andyoucallmeupagain]

me.

[marianniepants]

My favorite interspecies friendship is me and my dog.

[pre-party]

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

Tina Fey (via aotakesonchicago)

[landofthepine]

After a year of planning, designing, and building, we finally moved into our house!

Frankie is pumped for his new yard (and neighborhood dog park) and Will is pumped for his roof deck (and neighborhood watch opportunities).

[explore-blog]

Finding Winnie – the improbable, heartwarming story of the real-life bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh and the military veterinarian who saved her from a trapper. 

[landofthepine]

I snuggled baby farm animals and my nephews this weekend, so p. much best Saturday.

[humansofnewyork]

“I didn’t start running until I was 51 years old. I was a wimp at the time. A nothing. My marriage had fallen apart. I was only seeing my children on the weekends. I wasn’t sleeping well. I was waking up at 5:30 AM every morning, probably after a long night of drinking, and so I decided that I might as well go for a walk. As I walked around the park, I’d always see these runners out there. So I decided to give that a try. After a few weeks I could run six miles. After a year, I tried to run a marathon. I hit a wall at the twenty-mile mark, but I threw up and took a leak, then I found the energy to finish. I’ve been pushing through walls ever since. I ran sixteen marathons in seventeen years, until my doctor told me that I had to stop because of my heart. After that, I started walking ten miles a day. Now I’m 91 and my kneecap keeps collapsing, and I have trouble with my balance. But I’m still more confident than I ever was when I was younger. I was a wimp.”

[landofthepine]

10 years of Valentine's dates! #thisoneisthebest (at Hotel del Coronado)

[bibliolectors]

Lectores… por tierra, mar y aire (ilustración de Alessandro Sanna)

[landofthepine]

Art, Babies, Beers, and Roof Decks

2016 trips so far include DC for birthday celebrating, art appreciating, and baby holding (Will asked to use the ‘baby harness, like the one in The Hangover’) and Asheville for a ladies weekend with beers, good food, and 80′s music.

The biggest change for 2016 is our own ‘child’ (building a house has taken about 10 months- totally the same as having a baby, right?). Projected house completion is mid-late March, but that doesn’t stop me from creeping around the neighborhood and acting like a general contractor on site every day (spoiler- I have no idea what I’m doing or what I’m talking about when it comes to building anything or figuring out home ownership). 

Bottom photo is the view from our roof deck last night, which I can’t wait to use every day in a couple of months- Rosé season can’t come soon enough.

[peliculabest]

[lizclimo]

how to play football

(for sister)

[npr]

Happy Birthday Dolly!

Dolly Parton’s birthday is a great time to re-read the piece by Ann Powers on the musical icon. 

Dolly In Nashville: Authenticity That Makes Room For Rhinestones

[newyorker]

“The hardest thing for me to draw was the happy little girl,” John Cuneo says of “Winter Delight,” his cover for this week’s issue. “Drawing unhappy adults in bulky winter clothes hunched over their phones is much more in my comfort zone.” Read more about the artist’s inspiration.

[entertainmentweekly]

Take a look back at Alan Rickman’s heartfelt Harry Potter ad

Years before his death, Rickman took his own time to honor those around him. The British actor, who played Hogwarts professor Severus Snape in all eight Harry Potter movies, made headlines in 2011 when he took out a full-page ad in Empire magazine to mark the debut of the final Harry Potter movie.

[deathbycupcakes]

[therumpus]

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!