May is the Month of Mary, that's what they tell me. Children would dress up in their finest - or in the best they had (sometimes their best wasn't all that much better) - and carry flowers in a processional, through the school yard, down main street...
Read moreThe Pink House Dream
No one thinks to buy a pink house. It isn’t even all that pink. It’s just the shade of the brick-like sandstones sourced from the Kansas Flint Hills: a bumpy façade of taupe turning to mauve, burnt red fading into sand. No one brick is the same...
Read moreSt. Patrick's Day, from both sides
On Lady Friends, #SquadGoals and Becoming a Stayer
Apparently Squad Goals are thing, at least if you're Taylor Swift. (I'll let you guess which one is Taylor in the above photo). I have my own little sort of squad goals (assuming mid-to-ahem-upper thirties is not too old to use such colloquialisms):
Read moreHere + Now [February 2016 Edition]
Ba-ba-da-bum! A What I'm Into post? For reals? It's true, everybody. My hiatus of using my brain to remember stuff is over (we can do hard things). I don't entirely recall why I haven't done a What I'm Into post since July of last year...
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