Real life, on purpose.

I’d like the Caspian Sea-sar Salad, please.

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We spend Sunday evenings at my in-laws. The company is great and I don’t have to cook. It’s perfect. Except there’s always that weird lull between when church ends at 3:30 and when we actually go to dinner at 5. Lately, on weeks when we don’t have other meetings scheduled, we’ve taken to using that time to cruise by houses… View Post

Mila Monday: Fifty-two Weeks

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I can scarcely believe that it has already been a year since this little stinkbug joined our family. Her official birthday isn’t till Wednesday, but no matter the date I will always think of Memorial Day as the day my baby was born. Because, you know, it was. I never posted her birth story, but I’ve been meaning to for… View Post

Music and dogs and “the roar of cars”

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I was out watering the flowers the other day (which, by the way, are flourishing!) when I caught the faint melody of a familiar song. My ears strained to make out what it could be, and after a few moments I realized it was something by The Decemberists. I looked up and down the street at different neighbors’ houses, then… View Post

Making Daylight

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Last Saturday evening I had the good fortune to attend a photography workshop put on by the lovely Sarah Rhodes of Arrow + Apple. After I’d already signed up, I found out that we’d need to be in Winslow the following morning, and for a (very brief) moment I thought maybe I should back out. But no. It was going… View Post