Family Time
I'm so excited because in less than a week I will be in Kansas City meeting my brand new baby niece, Eva Rho Joyner, who is my sister Adrienne's daughter with her husband Drew. She is the first member of the next generation of our family and I am so excited to see her, to see my sister as a mother for the first time, and to see my parents as grandparents! It's a busy time of year and I will have been out-of-town for three consecutive weekends. Last weekend, Dylan and I went to Long Beach on Saturday to spend some time with friends down there for Long Beach Gay Pride, and the next day I traveled by train to San Diego with my co-workers for the West Coast Urban District Forum, a collaboration between IDA (International Downtown Association) and CDA (California Downtown Association), which we are members of both organizations. It was a great conference, fun to see the city through the lens of business improvement districts, and to be reunited with our friend Carlee who ...