It’s officially summer if you live in the northern hemisphere. If you live in the southern hemisphere I apologize, but I don’t feel too bad because *ahem* (I’m looking at you Australia) you live in the southern hemisphere. Anyhow, we just got back from a few days in the southern California sun and I would’ve moved in at the beach but that sort of thing is frowned upon. Instead I’ve put together a couple of style boards with cute summer…
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You know how sometimes you have an idea in your head, an idea of something really, really specific? Maybe you carry it around for decades, believing your idea will never come to fruition but you hold on anyway just in case one day it does. It happens to me all the time. I spent a lot of summers of my youth in a dentist’s chair, memorizing the perfect tropical beach in the poster on the ceiling, trying desperately to relax…
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Are you gluten free? Did you know I’m a leader in the Udi’s gluten free community? It’s a place for the gluten free people of the world to hang and share ideas for gluten free living, and is a great support in general for people who are totally best veggie fruit smoothie ever or looking to dabble a bit. I’ve gotten a lot of really great ideas from the Udi’s community to make gluten free living easier, since I’m in…
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Let’s face it, pregnancy can make fashion a nightmare. My first go-round I wore flower tunics with Peter Pan collars and weird, heavy Dr Marten sandals. My second time at the pregnancy rodeo I alternated between my super stylin’ mu-mu and a hospital gown. Sometimes I wore flip flop sandals when I got super fancy. These days maternity fashion is a whole thing; sexy high end jeans have maternity lines, and designers have maternity pieces in addition to their…
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I tend to overcomplicate things. If there’s a backwards 20-step process to get something done, I’ll do it. If I need to find shortest distance between two lines, I skip the lines altogether and make a circle around them. I draw the radius and find the area, and write a short essay on the nature of mankind and why it’s important not to focus on the distance of the lines but the reason they exist in the first place. It’s…
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I may have mentioned I’m an ambassador for Let’s Play, an organization partnered with Dr Pepper that works double time, around the clock, to bring play to every corner in America. There are a lot of kids out there without a safe place to play, and Let’s Play works really, really hard to build new playgrounds in cities and states for deserving kids every single year. But those of you who need a little play right now for the…
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Today I’m feeling wistful for the happy summers of my youth. Those carefree days of running through sprinklers in the front yard of my childhood home, wearing a hand-me-down swimsuit from one of my sisters, pieces of wet grass stuck between my toes. The sunny days of eating Popsicles on burning cement sidewalks, hot ridges of concrete patterns imprinting on the back of my legs, watching forlornly as fallen chunks of Popsicle melted in the gutter. I roamed the neighborhood…
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This week’s What’s in Your Purse Series week 87 (too much) is from me. Again. I dumped my purse out all over the kitchen table last week, so I could organize and sift out the miscellany that has gathered over the last two frantic months of travel and end of school nonsense. I knew my purse was feeling extra heavy, but I’m completely embarrassed to show you the amount of crap I’ve been carrying around. It’s ridiculous. I tried to…
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