Surviving summer

I loved summer as a kid. Having a long break from school, swimming at my grandparents house, eating copious amounts of popsicles, popping fireworks on the fourth of July, going on family vacations, having sleepovers with my friends and going to church camp all made my childhood summers pretty magical. I don’t love summer anymore […]

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for the anxious bride

I got married five months ago and it has taken that long to fully recover from eight months of stress and planning. It was a nearly perfect day that I wish I could relive a hundred times, because it truly was magical, but all of my concerns about the day being perfect and the hypothetical […]

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Health is not hard

This is a small dose of uncomfortable truth that I’m going to type as loud as I can because I want to share what I know and inspire some healthy lifestyle changes for anyone who might be able to use them, and because many of us live in denial of our deteriorating health under the […]

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