• Announcing….

    Announcing….

    Lucy’s next gift is the greatest one we’ve ever received. It is with so much joy we announce that Baby Ferri is due in September! We’re in love with this precious baby already and are dreaming of the day he/she is finally in our arms. This family of nearly six is so, so blessed. Continue reading

  • Rise II: It’s Time To Talk About Depression

    Rise II: It’s Time To Talk About Depression

    Over a year ago, I published a blogpost about anxiety in which I wrote about the stigma surrounding mental illness and described what anxiety is like for those who might not understand it. The response I got blew me away. For weeks afterward, friends, coworkers, volunteers, family, and even Internet strangers told me how they Continue reading

  • One Year and An Announcement

    One Year and An Announcement

    One year ago today was one of the worst days of my life. On May 4, 2017, I lost one of my dearest friends in the world. Having been in the horse rescue world for almost a decade, I love each and every horse I care for with everything I have. They are my brothers Continue reading

  • London Take Two: Day 9 – May 31, 2017 And Beyond

    London Take Two: Day 9 – May 31, 2017 And Beyond

    Last May, I traveled to London solo. Each day I wrote about my adventures in my London Take Two series… and never quite finished it! I still had one last post, about my final day, which sat in my blog folder for these past seven months until I finally brushed it off, polished it up, Continue reading

  • Honeymoon 2017: Part Two – Philadelphia

    Honeymoon 2017: Part Two – Philadelphia

    Thursday: November 9, 2017 If a heart attack were ever to visit me during my 20s, this would have been that day. I woke up in our Washington D.C. Airbnb somewhere around 8am (6am Arizona time). Alex was exhausted and feeling a little under the weather after walking seven miles around in the cold the Continue reading

  • Honeymoon 2017: Part One – Washington, D.C.

    Honeymoon 2017: Part One – Washington, D.C.

    At some point during this trip, I thought vaguely about taking my laptop out to blog about each day of our honeymoon. I’d done that every day in London, after all. Then I laughed and thought, “Nah.” I decided to live out each moment of our honeymoon instead of worrying about writing each day. Besides, Continue reading

  • The Final Countdown

    The Final Countdown

    Single digits. After nearly fifteen months of wedding planning… we’re down to single digits before the big day. http://gph.is/1M4M7VM http://gph.is/2rXB951 We’re nine days away from The Wedding (note the capitals), and – while simultaneously answering emails, confirming vendors, sending out final deposits, preparing our honeymoon, finalizing signs, going over the final seating chart, sending off Continue reading

  • Monument Valley + Hovenweep National Monument + Southern Utah 2017

    Monument Valley + Hovenweep National Monument + Southern Utah 2017

    “The Earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am how we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: we are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget what she is to Continue reading

  • Three Months

    Three Months

    Three months ago today, I lost my horse after a battle with laminitis. I finally wrote about it. ~ I have turned to words as a means of self-expression for as long as I can remember. The first thing I ever wanted to be in life was a writer. From the time I was a Continue reading

  • London Take Two: Day 8 – May 30, 2017

    London Take Two: Day 8 – May 30, 2017

    You know that feeling you get when you’re trying to grasp at something barely there, how in your half-asleep stage in the morning you’re trying to remember a dream that is fading fast from memory? Or when you have a sudden thought surge through your brain when – just before you can put it into Continue reading