I love having guests come visit me from my homeland of North Carolina. We band together drinking sweet tea and speaking in exaggerated drawls and spreading “ya’lls” like there’s no tomorrow. I make them eat a Tim Hortons donut. I beg them to try poutine. I show off my mountains. I take them to the…
When I first met Shanna, I was running around my neighborhood desperately trying to coax my kitten to return to me. I’m not sure I even said “hi” to her as I raced past her, lunged for the cat, and … well…missed. I wheedled. I begged. I bribed. I stalked. Yet my four-month-old kitten wasn’t…
You’re a grand old flag, You’re a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev’ry heart beats true ‘Neath the Red, White and Blue, Where there’s never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep…
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one!”” I realize C.S. Lewis was not actually thinking of photographers when he defined friendship in The Four Loves, but he did hit the nail on the head. Over the past several months, I’ve been…
I filled my Civic to overflowing, squeezed my family, and started off on The Great Adventure of a roadtrip honeymoon. I was relying on technology to keep my friendships alive across the continent. I was massively homesick. I was culturally mugged. I was ridiculously lonely. Two years have passed now. I begin my third year…
Inside the Devan Greenhouse flower bower, I darted from question to activity: setting up the cake designed by Cakes by Madison, helping Cas choose a necklace for her outfit, picking lipstick colors for Ashley, adjusting the fabulous bowtie from Arrow and Lace, making last minute adjustments to the skirts (I made from this skirts following this…
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