On the front page of today’s newspaper (The News & Observer) is a sweet photograph of my two children snuggling together, as they do so often. The article is entitled, “The Road To Foreign Adoption Grows Longer and Bumpier”. The piece is reported by Kristin Collins, a writer for the News & Observer with whom […]
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Had a great time down in West Palm Beach this week with my talented friends Lena Hyde and Laura Novak – we all stayed at Lena’s gorgeous house (looks like something out of House Design Magazine – uh, I made up that name, but that’s what it looked like to me) and stayed up late, […]
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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep is a powerful organization that is also difficult to discuss. Working with NILMDTS has been an honor, yes. It is also heart-wrenching for all involved. I kept the application to join on my desk for a few years, willing myself to have the courage to fill it out […]
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A bridal portrait I photographed of the gorgeous Carrie Williamson was picked up for exclusive usage (with the blessings of Carrie, of course!) by a cosmetics company, and it’s been great fun to see them use this image as the sole core-message photograph in their national campaign. I’d seen it last month in Ladies Home […]
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My daughter & I head out to Shriner’s Hospital for Children in St. Louis every year. I’m always so impressed with the medical work they do there and how much of the organization’s focus is to simply do good for others. It’s a boring plane ride, so we had a bit of fun with music […]
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After months and months of negotiating for approval to run through Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Endurance Magazine finally got permission to host the inaugural Tarheel 10-Miler, a 10-mile running event, benefiting the YMCA Strong Kids Foundation. Securing this race was quite a coup (Congrats, Steve, Thys and the rest of the staff!!), and the 10-mile […]
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I’ve had blonde hair my whole life, so when I walked into the hair salon a couple weeks ago and they asked what I wanted, I thought I’d try a different look. I decided to (gasp) darken my hair to auburn, and I’m totally loving it. Mixed reviews from others, though… 1. My daughter cried […]
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One of the coolest things about reading to your kids is finding awesome trivia books, so that you can all geek out together. You get to present cool, goofy information to your children with all the fun pictures while also learning cool, goofy facts. I can tell you with certain detail how skin breathes, for […]
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A happy, happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!! And a special one to my sweet, wonderful, oh-so-good-lookin’ hubby – just took his photo for the new Endurance Magazine website, but I don’t think he expected to see it here 🙂 And OF COURSE an extra special, big, big Happy Day to my two goofball, […]
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I very recently discovered this fascinating 3-part documentary about race in society, science & history, which asks quite a compelling question – how valid are your beliefs about the human species? This is a PBS documentary, which I’ve just ordered, but have already read a lot about on their website. Some of the many major […]
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Sometime last night, we surpassed one million page views on this blog. That’s a bit astounding to me, as this blog is only 4 3/4 months old. *(I measure time like my children do now. My son is not 3 and he’s not 3 1/2, but he’s not quite 4, so of course he is […]
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My daughter reminded on Friday that today is a holiday, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was born (or at least today we celebrate that birthday). So I asked her what she’d been taught about him in school. Her response, verbatim: “That he was a hero. That he changed the world. That he said […]
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My good friend dropped by our house yesterday to catch up for a bit. As we were chatting, her eyes kept meandering to this framed piece I have in my house of my parents: She apologized for getting distracted from our conversation and commented on how much she loved the piece. Always happy to talk […]
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After the non-stop race pace of the convention in Tampa Bay, I was fortunate enough to carve out TWO FULL DAYS by myself. I headed across the water to Safety Harbor and basically hunkered down with all my ideas, thoughts & inspirations and created a nice planning session for the business for 2008. The plan […]
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