Love gets harder as you go, yes. But it also gets better.
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You carry this with you or you will, one day, carry this with you. Grief is a wound and none of us go unbruised.
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You do not know the weight of the things you carry until you are able to put them down.
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I miss the world. (Film and digital, 2016.)
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I had that car for exactly half of my life; through college, grad school, five states, my first solo road trip, countless boyfriends, endless stoplight dance parties, one husband, two babies, one house, and a thousand past lives and versions of myself.
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there are pieces of my life scattered all over these places
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A Southern thing: in the space between spring and summer, while the heat creeps closer and it rains all the time, the magnolia trees start their show.
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Your local newspaper, it turns out, is vitally connected to the health of your community, in more ways than you might think.
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I am stressed out and burned out and tired almost all of the time.
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It was one of the best days of my whole life and one of my favorite things we've ever done together.
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We ate dinner, and drank a lot of wine, and then got on the bus to go back to the resort, at which point Brandon and I got into a very heated argument about Jim Harbaugh.
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North Carolina “snow” did its best to keep us grounded. We escaped anyway.
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Below is a post about my new year's resolutions, or lack thereof, which I finished writing and then didn't post because most of it is about books so I thought I needed to go take some artful photos of the stacks of books all around my house. And then I didn't do that, because I have a job and a life and, it turns out, not a lot of motivation to take artful photos of the stacks of books around my house.
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I cooked a lot — mashed potatoes, baked praline sweet potatoes, buttermilk cornbread, deep-dish apple pie — but I don't do food photography (everything looks disgusting no matter how hard I try), so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
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