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Refreshment
Well, hello there friends. It has been a minute, and I am so glad to be here again. You know how some days seem like years, and some years seem like just a few days? That feels like how I’ve experienced this past year. The months have been marked by some really hard things –…

Introducing…My Reading Room
I love to get up early. Before the noise of the day begins – when the sun is just starting to peek through the trees, when the house is quiet and still. The smell of coffee wafts through the house as the pot kicks off from when I set it the night before. It’s my…

It’s Fall Y’all (and Pumpkin Season)
I love fall. I do. I love everything about it. Crisp, cooler weather. Leaves in vibrant oranges and yellows. Football. Soups and chilis with warm, cozy flavors. Sweaters and hoodies. And pumpkins. All the pumpkins. The first fall after we got married, when I pulled out the boxes of fall decorations, my husband’s response was,…