Well, we certainly had a good run of it didn’t we, Geoff and I? In the end, I find myself often looking back on it all, and I can’t believe my good fortune to even have had the chance to experience the adventure of the past few years together at all. It really [...]

There’s a sign out front and my heart is in pieces.
I haven’t been myself these days.
I haven’t seen a glimpse of the person I knew in weeks.
Not in the mirror; not in him.
Within these familiar walls, trapped in tremendous grief.
I wonder,
when picking up the pieces won’t feel so overwhelming
how something that is supposedly right feels [...]

So I’ve always been fascinated by the sheer ease in which people are able to have children. Nearly anyone can have children, and nearly everyone does. But not everyone can raise them. Which is why adoption exists.
As taken from an Oregon.gov website:
Adoption: A Step-by-Step Guide:
Adoption-who can apply
It may take from four to [...]

It was nearing the end of another semester at work, and things couldn’t have been busier. It was somewhere between the growing pile of schedule change requests, massive heap of college paperwork and my scary email in box that it caught my eye.
The only framed picture that I keep on my desk. [...]

I’ve been a band nerd all my life, and really, with parents like mine, there was no escaping it. My dad held a masters degree in music education, (in addition to a ministerial masters degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver). Essentially, he was either a high school band teacher or [...]

It was Christmas day yesterday, and we were getting a bit bored. We had already called most of our relatives to wish them a merry Christmas and had even Skyped with my mom and brother as we opened presents they had sent, and it was only 10 a.m. We sat there on the [...]

These are the 10 reasons why I love Eugene:
#10:
Because places like these:

If you are an avid GeoffandCarley reader you will know that the PPPP is the annual Portland Pumpkin Picking Party that our fun and loving adoptive Oregon family invites us to every year. Because our birthdays fall just two short weeks apart and because they occur during the Halloween season, it seems to have [...]

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR GEOFF….
Happy Birthday to you!
Love,
Me