I have a weird goal of trying to photograph in all eighty-seven of Minnesota’s counties. This doesn’t mean I drive through, stop, take a picture, and move it along; I want to actually capture clients in their element in their own backyards. Last weekend, I found myself in my twenty-third county, Murray County, which leaves […]

FACT: I love Kimpton hotels. ANOTHER FACT: This is not a paid post. So genuine is my love for this brand that I gladly lend them a little space on my blog just so you, my readers, can make adequate lodging decisions the next time you vacation or travel for work. I didn’t purposely or […]

There is literally an app for everything these days. There are even smartphone apps that tells where the user has parked their car in a festive pirate voice. It truly is quite the time to be alive. It is also quite the time to be a business owner. The number of smartphone applications that can […]

Yesterday was the end. The grand finale. The bodacious buxom babe has hit her final bravada. I write this post graduate school. That’s right–I have finished grad school. With one final submission to Johns Hopkins University, I have, after five years, completed all requirements for my graduate program, and have earned my Master of Arts […]

It can be figured that what we don’t do in life is really just a sum of all our fears compounded. I was meandering through the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when a lovely Delta lady asked if I was interested in a Skymiles American Express card. I politely declined, but yet we kept chatting for […]

The wedding industry is no stranger to interesting trends. From the puffy and pastel bridesmaid dresses from the seventies and eighties to the photo in the brandy snifter …also from the seventies and eighties, there have been some interesting things that have come and gone in the wedding world. These days, however, there are a […]

Summer vacation is officially here! For approximately 180 days a year for the last twelve years, I have taken one of the three main roads out of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Each of these mornings I have  embarked on a 45-minute commute to my classroom where I would teach English, Social Studies, or both to students […]

It was a philodendron, a purportedly unkillable plant. It didn’t climb, so it shouldn’t sprout about and have to be pruned as such. It had big waxy leaves, so it retained water and wouldn’t super wilt if forgotten for too long. But yet, as I stood there, looking at the droopy, drying leaves, blotchy with […]

If you are like me, you are on the blogs right now because you are looking for a way to procrastinate. In addition to that, if you are a regular procrastinator–I mean, blog reader–you may have noticed that I was a little MIA this week. There’s a good reason for that. This week was the […]

What kind of cactus are you? If you were a dog, what breed would you be? Based on your Starbucks order, who is your celebrity crush? Thanks to social media and the good folks over at BuzzFeed, there is a never-ending supply of quizzes that probably entertain more than they inform. The idea of personality […]