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Wild-oming.

After four days of driving its dirt roads and stomping across its fields, I can say more than ever that:  I love Wyoming. All you die-hard Coloradoans, go ahead and gasp, if you want. I can’t help myself. I adore the big skies and rocky canyons. I love how wild and wonderful I feel when I am in it. It does something to the… read more

On Gardens and Gods and Leaving the Work Behind.

This is one of those rare moments where we joined John on a business trip, and it actually panned out. It actually “was” a good opportunity for us to have some quality adventure as a family. Not the kind where we’re hunting down a size three diaper in an airport. Thank God! Nope. Just good, clean fun. In a gorgeous place.… read more

Who says you can’t have Christmas at the Holiday Inn?

It’s December 17th and we are in the panhandle of Florida, smack dab in the middle of cookie-baking and gift-wrapping and last-minute shopping. Oh such stressful bliss. I’m not sure how I got here the very week before Christmas, with the potential that we’d have to stay through the ever important eve of Jesus’s birthday? Oh I know. What… read more