wearegrowinghome
Right Here, Now
In a day I will wrap up almost four weeks in Oregon and get on a plane back to the Midwest. I have been reflecting on my new normal of...
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wearegrowinghome
- Dec 22, 2019
- 3 min
Solstice Reflections
Today is the winter solstice: the shortest day of the year and the longest night. The most darkness, the least light. I’ve always found...
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wearegrowinghome
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
How did we get here?
I wake up in a blue room at 4:30 AM. Where am I? I look around to see a few small pieces of my artwork on the walls. I am in my bed. My...
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wearegrowinghome
- Aug 26, 2019
- 5 min
Are we there yet?
There's a quote that's been following me around since our road trip ended six months ago: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the...
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wearegrowinghome
- Jul 16, 2019
- 4 min
We're Eating Cake
The lady at the grocery store asked me, "What's the cake for?" I stumbled over my words trying to figure out how to explain a milestone...
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wearegrowinghome
- May 6, 2019
- 5 min
The Hardest Part
In my mid-twenties I was a part of a circle of women connected somewhat randomly into a discussion group with a tiny spiritual undertone...
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wearegrowinghome
- Jan 29, 2019
- 4 min
Everyone Needs a Sabbatical
When we were getting ready to leave the Twin Cities, a friend remarked that our upcoming journey reminded her of her exploration in her...
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wearegrowinghome
- Jan 14, 2019
- 5 min
Welcome Home
Tonight I arrived back to the last place Joel and I called home. After months of sharing spaces, experiencing new places, and being...
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wearegrowinghome
- Dec 12, 2018
- 4 min
According to Plan
We are no longer searching for the perfect place. We are no longer traveling from town to town trying to figure out, “Could this be our...
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wearegrowinghome
- Nov 19, 2018
- 3 min
Overcoming Fear
This week in Austin, I walked into a random barbershop with a shaggy mane of hair and walked out, Ramona Quimby, Age 8. It was a bad...
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wearegrowinghome
- Oct 26, 2018
- 4 min
Listening In
Driving back to our host’s home in Atlanta, Georgia I came across a marching band practicing in their high school parking lot. Student...
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wearegrowinghome
- Oct 10, 2018
- 4 min
Quiet in America
My friend Andi asked me for a pro/con list of all the places we’ve visited thus far in our search for home. As I sat down to draft a blog...
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wearegrowinghome
- Aug 28, 2018
- 4 min
Musings on Productivity
Today I looked at the calendar on my phone. The calendar I lovingly and without irony called “my lifeline” just a few weeks back. Empty....
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wearegrowinghome
- Aug 7, 2018
- 4 min
All the Feels
“How are you feeling?” That’s the most common question I have been getting since I announced to my network I was going to sell the house...
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wearegrowinghome
- Aug 1, 2018
- 4 min
A Love Letter to my Home
I bought my first home in May when I was 25 years old. I sold my first home this July when I was 34, rounding the corner on 35. In the...
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wearegrowinghome
- Jul 24, 2018
- 6 min
How to Pick a Place to Live (that you'll love)
Lots of people in our lives have been looking at our route and asking us - in the kindest way of course - why we are going where we are...
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wearegrowinghome
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
Start Here
When - and how - does change take root? For us the possibility of it was always hovering just below the surface, peaking out time to...
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