Black & White Chicken Chili {A formal soup indeed…}

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Seattle!!!! I'm in Seattle, Washington this week for my third International Food Bloggers Conference. I keep coming back to this conference because each time I've left I've implemented what I learned and it helped me GROW- both as a brand manager and as a blogger always at heart. From learning how to photograph food well, recapturing the joy of writing about foods, discovering new foods and trends … [Read more...]

it goes where it please, like the breath in me *

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it's the first cool Sunday I can remember and the sounds of my boys playing outside are therapeutic. The hum of a weed eater is nearby and there is an almost lazy silence in between,  punctuated occasionally with the squawk of a bird which sounds somehow out of place.  I love the sound of the wind in the trees and feel my soul stirring, like a flower turning to light. _____ "But I can't … [Read more...]

My “Child of the Week”

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My 4-year-old started preschool a few weeks ago and this week he is the "child of the week". The point is to let all the kids get to express themselves and get to know each other in a different way. He had to pick his favorite book to share with the class and selected the BIBLE. :D  Ben and I just looked at each other and wondered if the teacher was going to be "Riiiiiiight, parents. he picked … [Read more...]

Summit & William’s Syndrome

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If part of grieving is healing through acceptance, than perhaps I’m there. I realized the other day that I have never officially posted a whole article about Williams Syndrome or had a label on my blog for it until recently. Some people, I have become aware of, come to my blog to read about Summit (or Bear as I call him in some posts) and William’s Syndrome and how I’m dealing with life as … [Read more...]