This past weekend I spent a LOVELY morning with my friend Rachael Martin shooting my graduation portraits. We tried to get a lot of the basic grad photos, along with some more whimsical fairy-tale shots. Enjoy! If you’ve enjoyed Rachael’s… Continue Reading
Here comes the sun, and I am so incredibly, unfathomably, unbelievably grateful. The sun is joy incarnate in my life. Sunshine lifts my burdens and grounds me in the present. Today, I am standing barefoot and absorbing the nostalgic feeling… Continue Reading
Yesterday I took a long detour across campus to stop by the campus bookstore to purchase my cap and gown. I had received an email saying that this was THE week to do so, and so I hurried on in.… Continue Reading
Continuing what I hope will be a monthly tradition of “Keeping the Flame,” here is another installment of Mandi’s positivity-around-the-internet digest! We come together here in this little corner of the internet to pause and reflect on some little glimmers… Continue Reading
Disclaimer: This is a post in which I discuss my firm stance against the ownership of guns. If this offends you, feel free to move along. I usually never post about politics or other controversial subjects, but this is incredibly… Continue Reading
Continuing what I hope will be a monthly tradition of “Keeping the Flame,” here is another installment of Mandi’s positivity-around-the-internet digest! Beautiful things happen around the world every day. We hear about the tragic, the shocking, the gruesome, and the… Continue Reading
Beautiful things happen around the world every day. We hear about the tragic, the shocking, the gruesome, and the threatening things… but how often are we presented with beautiful moments? Let us fill our minds, our hearts, and our internet… Continue Reading
If you’ve been close to me in the past year, you have heard me raving about one of these books. I read some of these while I was in Austria, or before I left for Austria, and these books are… Continue Reading
This weekend, I spent a few days in the glorious Christmasy capital of the world: Vienna. The goal for this weekend was to finish all my Christmas shopping, and to really get into the Christmas spirit. I have been feeling… Continue Reading
If you’ve ever seen my closet, you would know that I am utterly OBSESSED with earrings. I don’t even try to deny it. After piercing my ears (finally) in highschool, I have pursued the art of having way, way, WAY… Continue Reading