I had been hearing about The Clean Program for awhile. When I saw friends preparing to start the cleanse for a second time, I was convinced that the results must be worth it. Over the last few years, I completed a Whole 30 program, I…
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Upgrade Your Favorite Breakfast Smoothie
Read moreThank you McCormick for sponsoring this post. Visit your local Wal-Mart to pick up McCormick Good Morning Breakfast for your family! If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, then you know that I am a smoothie person. I’ve been drinking smoothies for years. They…
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DSLR Photography for Beginners: The 3 Basics
Read moreMy journey with photography has been an interesting one to say the least. I started taking photographs with disposable cameras when I was a little girl. Through high school and early college I owned a series of digital “point + shoots” which were mostly used…
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january 2018: heart spill
Read moreIt’s been a long-time coming, but a lot of the things that I have been praying for, for so long, have finally come to pass. I am grateful and humble. Soon my life will be marked with sweeping changes and before all of that happens,…
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The Christmas Card That Never Was
Read moreHow are you, friends? Have you all survived the post-holiday blues? January has been a little rough over here. We had a cold snap that lasted for two weeks straight where the temperatures didn’t rise above freezing at all. It was painful to be outside…
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New Year Thoughts: Looking Backward & Forward
Read moreThese last two years of my life have, at once, been the most difficult and the most important of my life. One day, I will tell that story or at least the bits & pieces waiting patiently in my heart to be shared. But today,…
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Winter Solstice // I Still Love So Hard
Read more“I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.” –Alexandra Elle, Words from a Wanderer Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year–all of the days of darkness have been leading up to this…
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The Sustainability Project: An Introduction
Read moreWhat is Sustainability? Sustainability is the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. A sustainable lifestyle focuses on living a life that creates the smallest environmental impact possible. In other words: use less resources; create less waste; treat…
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Beauty in Darkness // Winter
Read more“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’” Over the weekend,…