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Category: Friends

  • Your Guide to Good Gift Giving

    Your Guide to Good Gift Giving

    Source: Your Guide to Good Gift Giving Today is an exciting Friday! SolDesign launched a new, gorgeous website and I wrote a post for it! (Well, I wrote a couple of posts, but this one is my favorite.) The idea for a guide to “good” gift giving has been brewing for a few years. Celebrations and holidays have…

  • An outpouring of love

    Just days before I left for Cambodia, I attended one of the loveliest, love-rich weddings I’ve ever been to. It was on Block Island, Rhode Island and the honored couple is my gorgeous friend Anna and her now-husband Ben. Words can’t do the ceremonial weekend justice, but I’ll try. I’ve often described Anna as my most…

  • The Journey

    By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you…