These last several weeks…

My life recently has been a really complicated one, here’s a video I made to sum up a lot of it. I have written this out so many different ways and have struggled to put into words what has happened to our little family over the past five weeks. As I mention on my Twitter […]

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25 things you did not know about me

Just before the holidays, I read/watched two fun posts from fellow RVA blog, Her Late Night Cravings, about Jayme and Mendi! I do not have the abilities, at least not yet, to do a Vlog like theirs, but I will make a list of the 25 things you might not know about me! 1. I […]

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The Great Gatsby trailer

Finally, after a very long wait, Baz Luhrmann released The Great Gatsby trailer last night: Who else is excited about another stunning film production from Bazmark Films? I know he often is criticized for how he kicks established stories (see Romeo + Juliet) up a notch, but I have always loved his sets, his costuming […]

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Summer Reads: The American Heiress

Seeing as I work in a library, I took the liberty of trying to find some books to suggest to our Library Director – who then disperses the options and then people may or may not choose to pick them up depending on the budget we have at that time. One of those books came […]

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Is there no Aristocracy in America?

I am deeply intrigued by a statement made in the October 2010 issue of Vanity Fair. Within the text of a story about the bitter rivalry of Rupert Murdoch and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. – titled “Two Men and a Newsstand”- author Sarah Ellison writes, “In America, there is no aristocracy or upper class in the […]

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