Family

Letting go, moving on.

April 30, 2012

Placing oceans between yourself and your loved ones inevitably means that you don’t get to talk to them nearly as much as you’d like. Phone calls from my mother are always welcome, and usually contain some new words of wisdom that I really needed to hear in that moment. I inherited the GO ON ALL [...]

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The Expat Chronicles, Saint Malo, and Accomplishment Math

April 10, 2012

My brother came to town for nearly a week to help me celebrate my birthday. Over the weekend we went to Saint Malo. I have amassed a ton of things that I want to eventually put together videos for, which means that I’ll probably throw up a random video of my brother’s visit in September, [...]

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The Expat Chronicles: Change, Family, and other Adult-like things

April 4, 2012

HI. It’s now Wednesday and I uploaded this on Monday. If it feels like I am essentially spamming my own blog with videos, I should add that I am also doing VEDA, which means that this could be so much worse. But since this is part of a collaborative project, I feel a certain obligation [...]

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The church van road trip and a year in review

December 31, 2011

It isn’t really the holiday season until the Sweeney family piles into the car with a bunch of suitcases, a few canvases, and some gigantic frames for a minimum of six hours. My little sister is about to be seventeen, and we are not exactly a tiny family, so we get some real quality bonding [...]

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There is no funnel cake in the International Media Circus

December 1, 2011

My phone rings and I know it’s my mom – she’s the only one who has my house phone. Well, her and the automated French recording that calls every so often. “Derrik was arrested in Cairo.” “Wait, what!?” It was a short phone call – she wanted to make sure that I heard it from [...]

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This is not the post I meant write today.

November 22, 2011

If you know me at all, you may have heard that it has been a trying day. My family is exceptionally close. My siblings are my best friends. My younger brother is currently in the fall of his junior year at Georgetown University, double majoring in Arabic and Psychology. Last night he was arrested in [...]

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Public Humiliation: Childhood Edition

July 20, 2011

I keep changing my tagline because I still don’t know what I’m doing with this blog and because I like to pretend that anyone other than me might actually care. Also on the list of bloggy-things-that-only-I-care-about, I redesigned the page now that I have this supremely amazing-but-not-really new tagline that I will change nineteen times [...]

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April Adventures, Part 1: “I think we just need to grab rhinestones and then we’re good to go.”

April 4, 2011

I love birthdays. It’s not the whole “Oh let’s celebrate me” aspect. I mean, fine, I joke with my mom and sister that their excitement over my birth should flow over into weeks of celebration because a single day couldn’t possibly contain it. But a holiday is a holiday. My freshman roommate had a September [...]

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Annual Catastrophic Snow Interaction Complete. Can it be spring yet?

February 10, 2011

We are approaching mid-February. This is the time when the light at the end of the tunnel begins to peek through and I have hope that maybe the snow and cold won’t actually last forever and maybe sunshine and happiness will return to the earth. The tragedy of this month, of course, is that this [...]

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Official Declaration of Maternal Entity’s Excellence

January 13, 2011

It has recently come to my attention that I might pick on my mom a little here on this blog. I am of the opinion that I pick on everyone — most of all myself. I am also of the opinion that nobody who reads this blog should be in any doubt of the fact [...]

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