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We have so much in common, Sebastian and I.

I have a new friend named Sebastian. He’s five. He also happens to be my neighbor. Sebastian and I see each other pretty regularly these days because he likes to roll down the hill in our front yard—an activity about which I have great enthusiasm. I mean,...

Boys (X4), LA and The Big Sale

We’d spent months planning The Big Sale, months filled with meetings and spread sheets and check lists. It was the kind of event that required that level of planning; there were a thousand moving parts, each one dependent on the other. As the big day approached,...

Have you seen this?

Ellie Cole dances as she waits for the bus in her hometown of Eastleigh, England. Secretly videotaped by Jane Rowland, the youtube video went viral and landed Ellie a role in a play at The Point Theatre! (For the record, Ellie was actually listening to Knock Down by...

Emily, Rachel, and Life’s Great Joy

It popped up there in my Facebook feed, a status update so unassuming I could have scrolled right past it with hardly a nod. Except this was from my friend, Sara: mother of 5-year-old twin sisters Emily and Rachel; Facebook status-updater who never disappoints. (And...

To The Mountains

I am a mountain girl. So it’s no surprise, really, that my soul settles every time I make my way from these South Carolina flatlands to the echoing peaks of the Appalachians. I need merely see those distant shapes through the windshield to feel their familiar...

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