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A space to talk about growing our businesses, families, & dreams. Pull up a seat, grab a glass of something you love (it's a dry rosé for me), & hang out for a while.
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Why Premarital Therapy is A Crucial Part of Wedding Planning

I don’t think it’s a secret that I like to talk about my feelings. This whole site is basically a portal dedicated to my feelings. Have you noticed? (I’m pretty sure the toddler I used to nanny who can’t read and can hardly talk has noticed.) When we started premarital therapy a few weeks ago, […]

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Family, Personal

August 31, 2018

How to Set Small Goals to Change Your Life

Is it just me, or can setting ambitious goals feel unattainable or unrealistic at times? Especially those big-picture, long-term goals. Sure, yeah, in 10 years I’d love to own a house in the country and have a couple books published and have a few more figures in the bank and maybe have a mountain home […]

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Career and Freelancing, Fashion, Self Employed

August 23, 2018

Why I Quit Training for A Marathon

I tend to have this cycle where I get really excited about something, decide to pursue it all out, invest a lot of time in it (and, sometimes, a lot of money), but then I eventually get discouraged by not being the best or as good as others or as fully committed as I once […]

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Health, Personal

August 16, 2018

5 Podcasts You Need To Subscribe To

I fell in love with podcasts like a lot of people did. Serial. Season 1. I never knew I was a true crime fan until I uncontrollably devoured episodes of Serial at a time and finished the season within one week. I also didn’t know my phone had its own built-in Podcast app until after […]

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Creativity, Personal

August 9, 2018

Your Production Does Not Equal Your Worth

When I moved from my full-time job in Dallas to being a nanny and freelancer in Nashville, I went through a sort of identity crisis. Same thing happened when I went from those jobs in Nashville to just freelancing and working on my own (currently wages-less) writing projects in Austin. Stepping out of that societal […]

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Personal, Self Employed

July 12, 2018

Let’s Not Get So Used to Our Own Lives

If you’re a human being, and if you’re reading this hopefully you are, you’ve experienced the normalization of something you once saw as exquisite or extraordinary. It happens in relationships, and the person you were enamored with five years ago now has more annoying habits than lovely characteristics. It happens in friendships, and the people […]

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Personal, Travel

July 6, 2018

4 Things I’ve Learned from Training for a Marathon

I texted my sister a couple months ago to ask if she would train for a marathon with me. She is the best runner I know, so I had a feeling she would be in for this nutty plan. To my delight, she didn’t hesitate at all before saying yes and started asking which half […]

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Health, Personal

June 28, 2018

Thank Goodness Timing Isn’t Up to Me

With all the moving parts in my life lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about other periods in my life when I’ve had pretty big changes and how I responded then. The most recent before our move to Austin, was the beautiful fall day that John and I got engaged, and before that, there was […]

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Family, Personal

June 21, 2018

A Little Rebrand, A Lot of Life

Things are looking a little different around here. Freckles and Figs is no longer. Nashville is no longer. Leaving my house for work is no longer. Life right now is weird and different and good, and with so many “no longers” come a lot of “but nows…”–I’m stoked for most of them, and working on […]

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Personal

June 14, 2018

Why Are Millennials So Flaky?

Listen up. We have a problem. “We” meaning the majority of us in our 20s and 30s, including me. I’ve noticed a theme over the past few years that maybe you identify with: someone makes plans, you say you’ll go, and then an hour before said plans are planned to happen, you decide you can’t […]

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Personal

January 25, 2018