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Spring Break Road Trip (Day 7 & 8: Park City)
Just like a Saturday, the best part of a non-travel day on a road trip is the freedom to sleep in as long as you want. Now, I haven’t really been able to sleep passed 9:30 since I was about 18, but there’s something to be said about just laying there, with nowhere to be, Continue reading
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Spring Break Road Trip (Day 6: Bend to Park City)
It was another early morning to start another long day of driving, and with the events of Saturday still looming in the far back corner of our minds, we figured it was only logical to start our day with Starbucks. Unlike Friday’s departure from Vegas, the drive out of Bend didn’t involve buildings shrinking out Continue reading
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Spring Break Road Trip (Day 4 & 5: Bend)
Sweet, sweet, Bend. You are cold, but you are a place. People love you. People! You have people. And houses. And food. Oh Bend, I love you. On Sunday morning Allison, my sister and I got up slow and made our way over to have brunch, which proved to be nothing short of a gift Continue reading
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Spring Break Road Trip (Day 3: Vegas to Bend)
Even with my best attempt to go to bed relatively early, the 6:00 alarm I set for Saturday morning still hurt…a lot. I hobbled around the dark room, hearing Cory’s words ringing in my head, “is there a reason why we’re awake right now?” Only this time I knew the answer was “yes”, because today, Continue reading
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31 Good Things That Happened in March (2017)

I have good news and good news. I have only good news! As mentioned in this blog post, at the end of every month I’m going to highlight all the good things that happened, to give ourselves a break from the well known bad. You can find last month’s here. Happy March to you! . Continue reading
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The Dog & the Fire Hydrant

While doing some research on clichés for my Valentine’s Day post a while back, I came across one that didn’t quite sit right with me: Sometimes you’re the dog; sometimes you’re the fire hydrant. It’s not that I didn’t get it, I just thought it left so little to the imagination. When I Googled it Continue reading
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My Journey (So Far) to Winning the Heisman

One of the goals I set for myself in 2017 is to run 1000 miles, and this past Sunday, I hit the 200-mile mark! Woo! You still have 800 to go, you know. Hey. Enough of that, negative brain. I’ve run 200 miles! HELL YEAH SHE HAS. Thank you, positive brain. This is an exciting Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Rogers!

When I was little my family lived next door to my grandparents, and oftentimes I would walk over after school to watch TV and have an afternoon snack. My Grammie and Papa would get me, my sister and my cousins all settled in with an eskimo pie or a neapolitan ice cream sandwich and turn Continue reading
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A Lesson in Courage from the Real Moana

My sister and I recently got around to seeing Disney’s Moana and, long story short, we’re obsessed. And while I could go on and on about pretty much every second of every minute of the entire film, quoting my favorite parts, gushing about my favorite characters and belting out every verse of my favorites songs, Continue reading
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