Archives: Life Posts
Do you have a handful of blogs that you follow purely for fun? Over the past few years, I’ve moved away from following primarily recipe blogs to spending my time enjoying other types of lifestyle blogs, and it has been awesome. I have blog categories on Feedly for photographers I...
Reading The Skimm first thing every morning. Best daily news email ever. Listening to even more Christmas music (if that’s possible) than usual this year, courtesy of dating a guy who’s a Snow Globe. Learning everything about Teddy and Franklin Delano, via Ken Burns’ 7-part documentary on Netflix. Fascinating. Digging everything made...
Settling back into life in KC after back-to-back trips these past 5 weeks. They were all amazing (Beaver Lake with girlfriends –> Pittsburgh with DeLallo –> Wichita for my parents’ 60th birthday party –> Minneapolis with Chex –> Brooklyn for Click Retreat –> Smoky Mountains with Barclay –> Park City...
Alright, I can’t take it any longer. I have some fun news that I’ve been dying to share with you these past four months. I’M DATING THIS WONDERFUL GUY!!!!! And I am so dang happy about it. :) Like, wake-up-every-morning-with-the-cheesiest-grin-on-my-face, still-can’t-quite-believe-my-luck, slightly-freaking-out, yet-loving-every-second, feeling-oh-so-grateful, and-basically-just-wanting-to-shout-from-the-rooftops-that-I-REALLY-REALLY-LIKE-THIS-GUY happy about it. And after trying to play it...
Missing my Costa Rican host family already like crazy. I just got back last week from (finally) making it to Alajuela to see them again, after having spent the last 10 years apart. And my goodness, words can’t even come close to saying how much I love them. We...
Happy August, friends!! So, I have kind of quietly been taking a bunch of time off this summer, which has been awesome. But I realized that in doing so, I completely spaced off sharing our July dare. Oops! The dare that I had meant to post for the month was to “Crush On A...
We’ve finally hit true summer temps in Kansas City, after suffering through a grey and rainy June. When the heat rises, I start to crave cooler beats. I want something that will make sway…but nothing that will make me sweat more than I already am. My criteria for this July...
Snapchatting all the things. (Ok, mostly my dog.) Come say hi at @gimmesomeoven! Still smiling after getting to play a concert with The Nightingale Orchestra this past weekend. Highlight of my month. Reading this book, which is claimed to rival Gone Girl (doubtful, but we’ll see). Followed soon by this book (followed by the movie...
I know I’m not the only person who gets a bad case of wanderlust the minute the calendar flips to Summer. There’s something about the longer days, warmer weather and childhood memories of three free months that make me want to leave everything behind for open windows and open...
I know. Having just recently finished a 3-season House Of Cards marathon, watched the dramatic season finales of my favorite network shows, and (yes) gotten suckered once again into a new season of The Bachelorette, this month’s dare seemed a little dramatic to me. But it’s happening, and I’m strangely excited about it,...
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about rest. I’m not naturally a restful person. I’m a dreamer, schemer, planner, creator, do-er. Even in my baby pictures, I’ve got my eyes wide open and my fists clenched while my twin sis, Megan, is all carefree smiles. I’ve always been wound...
In honor of the arrival of warm weather and all things “spring”, this month’s dare is a simple one: Go outside…for at least 30 minutes a day. For most of us, this dare will probably require no arm-twisting. Because really — who doesn’t love being outside in the springtime...
