Let me tell you about my friend Kim. Kim is REAL. Yes, we’re all physical beings roaming the Earth, but I’m going beyond the literal sense. Kim is honest, and encouraging, and has nothing to do with facades or falsities. Imagine hunkering down in your coziest chair with a well loved blanket…
Raise your hand if you are a bibliophile. Or maybe you have that urge to write stories, and create characters, and research every last scrap of detail so that you can build a huge world for a reader to lose themselves. Or maybe you’re that reader that dives head first…
What happens when you take a tattooed, momma bear that brings life to thrift finds, dabbles in cloth diapering, and is secretly a mermaid… then toss her behind the lens of a camera? You get my friend Samantha, the photographer behind Adventures of a Tattooed Mermaid, and Augusta Rae Photography.…
Have you ever met someone and you instantly thought: Dang. They are just COOL. This was my immediate reaction upon meeting Jessiana. The nuts and bolts of our introduction is that she’s my sister’s sister, so I lucked out in getting to know this Cali girl when our families got lumped…
It’s Friday again. And that means I get to show off another friend of mine! This time around, I’m cheating a little bit, because Emily is not only my friend, but also my cousin. Our family likes to sprinkle themselves all over the US, so growing up it was a…
A few years ago I’m at this random Halloween kid party with my first munchkin, who happens to be dressed up as the Baby Stig, and I’m regretting my choice for his costume. No one seems to know what he is, I’m awkwardly stammering, “it’s a race car driver? Like in…
Meet my friend Ali. We went to school together way way waaaaay back, and she always had this glowing positivity about her. She was one of those genuinely nice people. More recently I’ve been following along her journey as she writes about food allergies and healthy living, and you wanna know…