Thursday, August 13, 2009

Get to know Sarah: Major milestones in 32 years of living

  • March 1977- born in Charlottesville, VA
  • 1977-1982- formative years in foothills of Blue Ridge. Drove tractors, learned John Denver’s Greatest Hits by heart, aggravated older sister Hilary, and kept a rabbit named Princess Sweet-Pea Elizabeth Talbot.
  • December 1982- younger sister Kathryn born. New toy for Sarah!
  • February 1983- family moves to suburbs of Richmond
  • April 1983- learns from future best friend that Easter Bunny does not exist and that chapstick in Easter basket is from Avon, not fictitious rabbit.
  • Fall 1983- starts playing soccer. Hates it at first but grows to love it and continues playing for next 7 years.
  • Fall 1983- starts piano lessons. Loves it at first but grows to hate it and continues lessons for next 8 years.
  • Spring 1984- co-founds detective agency. Solves mystery of neighbor's missing dog.
  • Fall 1984- learns to walk on stilts, handmade by grandfather
  • Spring 1988- saves up for and buys tandem bicycle. Next 4 years spent peddling for two.
  • Spring 1990- joins middle school track team and so begins lifelong love/hate relationship with running.
  • Spring 1993- driver’s license! First job working at Little Caesar’s Pizza Pizza
  • Fall 1995- moves to Charlottesville…UVA!
  • Fall 1999- moves to Cameroon… Peace Corps
  • Fall 2002- moves to Portland, OR…rain
  • Fall 2004- moves back to east coast…unemployment
  • February 2005- begins interning at Save the Children. Four years later, still saving children.
  • January 2006- meets Sam Kirby. Spills drink on him. And the rest, as they say, is history…

4 comments:

  1. where was the dog?

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  2. i object to this:
    Spring 1988- saves up for and buys tandem bicycle. Next 4 years spent peddling for two.

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  3. you can object all you like...doesn't make up for 4 years of not peddling!

    how's the easter bunny by the way? did he come to your house this year?

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  4. The 1995 - 1999 period is a bit incomplete . . . I see no mention of meeting me?

    Also does Sam not know the date of Sarah's birth?

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