Despite the fact that we’ve all dispersed from Santa Barbara back to our homes, the online United party is still rolling with story after story (some funny, some inspiring, some absolutely moving) and photos and memories and online hugs. It sounds very dramatic to say that this year’s United conference changed my life, but truly, it […]

SAMBAZON ACAI BOWL While in California this month for a photography conference, I spotted two girls eating this on a bench. My friend Rachel asked where they got it and they said it was from The Cow’s End. It was less than a block away and so I ordered this and still cannot stop talking […]

e stood under a tree around the back of the church waiting for her to come to him. Her shoes put divots in the lawn as she made her way through the grass. She walked up behind him, tapped on his shoulder, and he turned to finally see her; his bride. Julie & Mike just […]

When I first met Morgan, one of the first things she told me about her wedding was that she really, really wanted snow. No one could’ve predicted the brutal winter we’ve had here in Iowa–so brutal, in fact, that I wasn’t even sure it would warm up enough to snow! But Morgan got her wish. On […]

Kapoosh knife block I’ve had this knife block on my wish list for a couple of years now and finally got around to buying it for myself earlier this month. I’ve got an assortment of kitchen knives, most of which are from Uzbekistan and won’t fit into any regular knife block so I needed something […]

One of my big winter projects this year was to finalize my new magazine, The Bride’s Guide. I had a rough draft copy ready in the fall, but took a Sharpie to it with lots of formatting corrections, some layout changes, and even some article additions. I finally finished it in January and purchased the […]