My heart is preparing itself for winter. I find myself wondering how I will survive. These seasons of my life are the hardest and the most full of wonder that I will ever know. There is the solitude of marriage; the solitude of motherhood; the…
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portraits 03 // roman + marina
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough…
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Memorial Day Weekend // 2015
Memorial Day has always been a very special holiday for me & my family. It’s the unofficial start of summer — bring on the cold drinks, hot sun, beach days, and BBQs! But more importantly, it is a time to reflect and give thanks to…
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Cultivate Your Own Happiness
Each month, several magazines come to our house. Strangely, we don’t subscribe to any magazines. The magazines all come addressed to the woman who lived here before us. There are a lot of them. Maybe five or six a month? Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Food, Parents.…
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Spring Fling
The first step to getting what you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. I can’t believe that we’re halfway through May already. How did that happen? I blinked and I turned thirty… and Roman turned one… and now Memorial Day is…
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Still I Rise
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. You may shoot me…
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We were together. I forget the rest.
We’ve got reason to believe that, at long last, spring has finally sprung. We’ve been sucking up all that the warm weather & sunny skies have had to offer for the past couple of days. I’ve been spending time with my sweetest, little love —…