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Moodboard: The Mountains Are Calling
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Aghh, the hardest part about this challenge is the 20-minute limit. The poking & prodding urge to change placement or image or or or… after time’s up is like a nervous tick to me....
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Moodboard: Becoming the Bodes
clockwise 1 / 2 /3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Let’s acknowledge Joel & I are 26 days away from Becoming the Bodes by sharing our wedding moodboard! Now’s not the time to admit I stewed over this longer than I did...
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My Bachelorette Celebration
A bachelorette party is similar to what you’d say about Las Vegas, Mexico, or anywhere else you’re doing something you don’t want others to know about…What happens there stays there. You want to keep...
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Time & Empathy
Last Sunday I was dead set on cleaning our yard for fall. With the past year being everything about our wedding, it was refreshing to focus on the leaf piles, trimming the bushes, picking up soggy...
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Our Harvest Moon Wedding
No one is more surprised than me to see this picture of us with me as his bride, pure joy emanating from my face during our Harvest Moon wedding last September. I couldn’t contain my happiness during...
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Moon Lodge Goodbyes, A Moving Announcement
It was a warm August night. I was coming from a meditation session at the little beach down the road from our place in the woods. We pulled up to a quaint house in a quaint neighborhood. The kind of...
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Rural to Urban: A moving update & where we are
It’s been 3 months since moving from our first house in a rural lake neighborhood to a one bedroom apartment in the city. Like most transitions, it’s been messy, overwhelming, and not easy. Of course,...
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A Letter to My Husband on Our First Anniversary
The origin of our first dance It was Spring Break a few months after we met. You convinced me I must go with you despite my excuses that I couldn’t (money, study, home body). You even drew a little...
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Ordinary Dreams
“You guys, doesn’t that look like Terrance’s mom?!” he asked mid-catch. “Hey guys, doesn’t that look like our teacher?!” he repeated. It took me a moment to realize one of the boys playing football...
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Rural to Urban: What we like and what we don’t
It’s been six months since moving from a small lake town to a more urban area in an apartment in Grand Rapids. We’re about halfway through our year-long visit and we’ve been learning a lot about...
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Urban to Rural: Spring Cleaning
Urban to Rural: Spring Cleaning “Spring cleaning is not a metaphor, my dear.” I woke up to this text from my mom this morning. As I sit hear drinking my first cup in our old house that is again, our...
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Spring Capsule: Taking Weekend
Spring Capsule: Taking Weekend Taking the weekend, letting the weekend give to you. It isn’t meant to be rushed through but rather to be savored. I’m hoping mine looks like a slow morning, coffee in...
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Observations as of late
The heart can think of no devotion, greater than being shore to the ocean, holding the curve of one position, counting endless repetition. – Devotion by Robert Frost When the water is like glass on...
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Urban to Rural: The Things We Keep
Urban to Rural: The Things We Keep I almost put on our wedding invitations – No plastic, please. If you were to visit our home you wouldn’t find Tupperware in the cupboards. Unless Joel snuck it in. Or...
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