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Today I’ve thought a lot about things falling into place — in the most perfect of ways, in the most unlikely of ways. Like when a...

I make home everywhere I go. Each temporary residence, I bring a sense of coziness, a relaxed air. It follows me everywhere. This is the...

I just found out that my future city, Little Rock, Arkansas, charges a 10 percent alcohol tax on mixed drinks in hotels, motels,...

Last Wednesday night my dad and I sat on the steps of our front porch watching a storm roll in, as Missourians do. While the wind picked...

Some may look at her and see a run-down chunk of metal. I look at her and see the 70,000 miles we spent together, the quality singing...

As I stir my margarita at the token Mexican restaurant in the Dallas/FW airport, I realize 1) being a single girl in the airport will get...

When I go camping, I always have this image of a lone tent set high up on a bluff at night, the sky generously grated with stars as...

We woke up to an ominous black line of storm clouds closing in on the campsite. But we didn’t care because we’d be traveling the 61 miles...

Today was our first day of hiking in Glacier. When I say this place is not real, I mean that when you hold a lens up to one of the...

Traveling by night has its advantages. Less people on the road, less tiresome Missouri landscape flashing by. We drove 12 hours and ended...

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