I can hardly explain how relieved I am that Black Friday and Cyber Monday and all of the rest of that nonsense is over. The more that I reflect and plan for what I want in the coming year, the more the idea of simplicity…
motherhood
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portraits 06 // roman + marina {my best friends}
Read moreWe took these photographs last month when we were still in the middle of our glorious Indian Summer. Now the cold weather has set in. We woke to thick frost on the grass this morning. Roman came running into my bedroom to say, “Mama the…
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Roman James at 4 Years + 5 Months
Read moreWhen I was young, my mother always cried at my concerts, plays, graduation ceremonies, and so on. I’ve always been incredibly empathic. Even as a child, I had some understanding that my mother was crying because she was proud of me and because she loved…
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Marina Grace in Autumn
Read more“If I did anything right in my life, it was you.” Autumn finally blew in this morning. It carried with it all of the promises of magic & hope that only autumn can bring. My heart was so filled with inspiration and so we adventured…
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Life is Magic: The County Fair
Read moreWhen I think about the magic of summertime, the County Fair always comes to my mind. Some of the sweetest memories of my life were made at the fair. Most people don’t realize it, but New Jersey is actually home to thousands of acres of…
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#ThrowBackThursday: That will be enough.
Read moreI’ve been doing a bit of cleaning up here around the blog. For the first time since I created this blog eight years ago, I began sorting through my drafts folder. Most of them were many years old, half-started thoughts that I never got around…
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She is fierce.
Read more“And though she be but little, she is fierce.” –William Shakespeare At 2.5 this little girl exhibits more strength & ferocity in a day than I have in my entire life. She knows what she wants, and she doesn’t accept no for an answer. She…
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// cultivate joy
Read moreLast week I took the kids to the park. While they were playing on the playground — running around, climbing, jumping, going up and down the slides — I sat down on the swing. I started swinging back-and-forth. Pumping my legs, going higher and then…
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Red, White, Blue & Sweet: Happy Independence Day!
Read moreHappy 4th of July, friends! On this day, we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. That Declaration proclaimed to the world our emergence as a new sovereign nation, as we state in the pledge to our flag, “under God, with liberty…