This is from a free writing session earlier this year. For me, free writing gives me a way to sit and just let the words flow. Sometimes I know what I’m going to write when I sit down, other times it unfolds as I type. I hesitated to share this on here as it’s quite …
Veterans Day 2014
While I’m seeing Veterans Day posts all over my social media sites, I find myself contemplating some really brilliant thoughts our friend Niki shared with us at church on Sunday. Of course we had all our veterans stand up and we thanked them for their service. Thanked them for defending our country and our rights. …
Meet Natalie | Photography Fun
Sometimes you just have to have some fun, especially when you’re a creative! Natalie is one of my awesome friends and fellow photographers and member of the CILPP with me. With our recent Headshot Swap we had decided to do some more head shots yesterday evening with her and our other friend Andrea. But with …
Embracing the Silver Lining
So yesterday was a rough day for me, but as always I try to find the silver linings. I woke up feeling awful due to an adjustment on some of the medication I am on to help with Ryan and my attempts to start this family. Not a way a want to start my morning …
A Trip to the Apple Orchard
If you’ve been following me for a while now – you may recall that fall is my favorite time of year. There are so many things I love about fall: the weather, cookouts and campfires, boots and sweaters, hot cocoa and s’mores, and one of my favorite things – trips to the apply orchard! We …
Three Year Fire Anniversary
So Friday was officially the three year anniversary of the day our lives were changed – the Great Kirksville Fire of 2011. I still remember it like it happened yesterday. It was 4:00 in the morning and I was awoken to the sound of breaking glass. I thought someone was breaking into our house until …
October: The Busiest Month of the Year
This fun little images has been floating around on facebook the past few days and it sure has provided myself and a number of my photography friends with a good chuckle. It is so true! I don’t know what it is about October specifically that it always ends up being THE busiest month in my …
Pieces of Me: Essential Oils
Okay – so the video post I was going to share today is taking way too long uploading to YouTube so I’m going to postpone it to another day. Instead I thought I’d go ahead and share another Pieces of Me post. This one is about Essential Oils. Okay so I know that essential oil …
Through The Viewfinder Photography
As many of you know, I’m constantly educating myself on my craft and I love to explore new ideas and techniques for shooting. If you’ve been following me here for a while you probably remember my love for old film cameras and that I’ve slowly been acquiring a collection of them. So I recently have …
Writing And Fear
A little while ago I had the joy of spending a good deal of time talking with one of my super sweet cousins. One of the many things we talked about that evening was writing and fear. The topic mainly came up because of this… this little space on the internet, my online journal, and …