You won't fail.
🍊 Sometimes, you’ll feel like you’re the last of the winter fruit, just barely holding on. Not wanting to drop. Beat up, bruised, shriveling and defiant. Gravity, the…
Christmas, on repeat.
❄️ Not sure anyone cares about my favorite Christmas song, except maybe my family because I keep it on repeat, and repeat “I love this song so much,” endlessly—but…
This is a gift for you.
👩🏻🎨 It’s book release day for this one, and it is impossible to overstate how proud I am of her.
“This is a Gift for You,” is the best…
Wet Knees
🍄 Low to the ground, knees wet through my jeans from the damp forest floor, I can’t believe they’re real.
I mean, look at them.
Fifty or so…
One Year Ago
🌲 This was us, just a year ago.
I’ve been writing this post in my head for weeks now, never quite coming up with the right words. All the…
Trying Hard
🍼 With a babe in arms, it is no wonder I've been thinking a lot about parenting and my place in the world.
It's a surreal…
Frog Lake
🐸 Frog Lake, Oct. 2021
There’s actually seven different Frog Lakes in Oregon, eight if you count “Bull Frog Lake” — that’s in Oregon City and isn’t actually…
As much as I'd like.
🏕 I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like.
The only things I’ve been writing lately are small stories of love and the future, told into…
Tae.
👞 Even if you think you have a lot of friends or know a lot of people, in the grand scheme of things, you really don't get that…
Tired, but happy.
🐇 Tired, but happy.
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It was a month ago tonight when this little lady bounced into our lives.
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I could write about how many times I’ve just teared up…