It’s been said so many times. There’s power in dreaming out loud. In writing dreams down and speaking them out loud. It’s terrifying. It’s paralyzing. It’s scary. And fear is always the grip that holds us back. For so long, I’ve allowed fear to hold me back from my dreams. But I spoke those dreams […]

I’ve just been giddy to tell y’all this! (And my guess is that you probably clicked over to here because you were just sure I was going to say that I’m pregnant. While babies are wonderful little human beings, there is no mini-Crall on the way. Sorry, folks. But to us, this is something nearly as […]

I feel like I must put pen to paper–or fingers to the keyboard–right away or I’ll lose what I want to say about this experience. It had both it’s highs and lows. (The lowest being Monday night after extreme exhaustion when I declared that I have no talent and I’ll surely have to quit photographing. […]

I can’t tell you the temperature, but my toes felt numb for about 4 hours after we got home. (Although, that might also be because I was wearing non-waterproofed boots and only one pair of socks. Rookie.) We got out of the house for a bit, both armed with cameras and explored a bit of […]

In a sudden burst of energy last weekend, I raided the house and started piles for tossing, Goodwilling, and selling. In the process of all of this, I realized that I am a hoarder. I blame this on my father. To his credit (and mine), I’m an organized hoarder. For example, the receipt for a […]

I created this over the weekend to remind me…