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Albion Fit Giveaway

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:01:12 PDT

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but this weekend is Memorial Day weekend and that means summer’s here. It’s sure beginning to feel like summer in these parts, at least (read:...

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The Business of Chasing Dreams

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:42 PDT

image source My dad started giving money to William & Mary when I was in elementary school. The alumni magazine started to arrive quarterly in the mailbox stuffed between all of the bills,...

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The Sunday Currently {32}

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:49:00 PDT

& then the world lay still reading some F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. My Coralie Bickford-Smith edition came in the mail yesterday and I just love reading a gorgeous...

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I Married for Love

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:01:05 PDT

photo credit Jodi Miller Photography I met my husband on April 28, 2007 at a mutual friend’s 21st birthday party. The next night, the dude actually called me. Two weeks later, the semester was...

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One Day, Twelve Moments

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:56:00 PDT

We finished watching Silver Linings Playbook last night and it’s left me in the same sort of love story funk that I get after watching Garden State or Breakfast at Tiffany’s or really any...

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Friend Connect Blog Hop

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:41:00 PDT

So awhile back I teamed up with Melissa to co-host the Friend Connect Blog Hop. We’d love for you to add your blog to the list and for you to visit some new friends while you’re here! You...

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Project Green: Go Baby Grass, Go!

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:03 PDT

It has been an honor to sponsor The Home Depot Garden Club over the past two months. I feel truly blessed to have them finance and support my lawn project. As always, the words, pictures and video...

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The Sunday Currently {31}

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:55:00 PDT

madly in love with my new hanging wandering jews…. missing my family up in Michigan. Especially my mom on this Mother’s Day. This is my very first Mother’s Day away from my...

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The Best Part of My Day

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:01:12 PDT

Within a week of bringing Misha home, her name changed three times and her size grew zero. She didn’t really want anything to do with humans, but at least she wasn’t hiding underneath the...

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On Miracles and Moms and Babies

Tue, 07 May 2013 03:01:20 PDT

I’m about to tell you a story that will make you believe in miracles. It doesn’t matter who you pray to (or don’t). It doesn’t matter how skeptical you are of luck and chance...

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Project Green: Manual Labor

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:00:00 PDT

I’m thrilled to be sponsoring The Home Depot Garden Club in this series of posts on spring lawn care and fertilizers. While they are financing and sponsoring this post, the rest was really up...

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Becoming Me: I Do It Real

Mon, 06 May 2013 02:00:34 PDT

I am a teacher. It’s my job. But that’s about it. I don’t feel teacher like some people do. I work teacher rather well but not an ounce of my heart more. So… what do I do? I do the best homemade...

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The Sunday Currently {30}

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:20:00 PDT

slowly, slowly our deck is waking back up…. clicking on my blogger adoration, Natalie Holbrook. I do, truly, adore her. She’s the sweetest in-real-email-life (if only I could say...

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Rest and Be Kind

Sat, 04 May 2013 05:05:00 PDT

image source Jack Kerouac defined my college years. I devoured his paperbacks like a starved child devoid of nutrients in those years. Since that time in my life, it’s safe to say I’ve...

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The Neurotic House Guest

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:01:00 PDT

image source I nearly bailed and it’s day three. People. I blame it on Jenni’s order choice for these prompts. “Things that make you uncomfortable”. On day three? This post...

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May Day in Annapolis

Thu, 02 May 2013 02:00:00 PDT

I can count the times I’ve been close to calling myself anything remotely close to a garden club member on two fingers. One when I watch Dennis the Menace and pretend like I’m an extra in...

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Of Periwinkle Carpets and Fluffy Orange Cats

Wed, 01 May 2013 01:00:50 PDT

I’m thrilled to be participating in Jenni’s Blog Every Day in May challenge. I am certain to miss a day between now and the 31st, but for now I’m 1 for 1. Today’s prompt was...

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Project Green: The Shopping Trip

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:58:00 PDT

You might recall from last Monday that I’ve teamed up with The Home Depot to share my spring lawn care project with you this year. While they are financing and sponsoring this project, the rest...

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The Sunday Currently {29}

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:36:44 PDT

…. in which we finally get around to our annual spring yard work day…. reading nothing particularly at this moment. I haven’t had much time to sit down and devour a good hardback...

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Old Rag

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:00:46 PDT

I must have been somewhere in those awkward preteen years where I wanted to be a tomboy just like Amanda on It Takes Two (Mary Kate? Ashley? Whichever one it was….). Probably nine years old,...

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