Joy in the World

Summer Snapshots

Updates, plus a round-up of my favorite travel products!

Aug 30 • 

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May 2025

Call me Gigi

A very important life update

May 23 • 

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April 2025

Driving me crazy

The truth about driving outside of America while trying to hold onto a tiny thread of sanity

Apr 5 • 

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March 2025

The disappearing wood pile

Updates, link love, and do I like celebrity memoirs now?

Mar 20 • 

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February 2025

The mud puddle

Love still, always shows up

Feb 26 • 

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January 2025

Cannonballs

An update, or why I've been quiet here, plus my word of the year

Jan 21

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November 2024

A bowl of tomatoes

Neighbor trauma, my awkwardness + a cookie recipe

Nov 3, 2024 • 

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September 2024

C'est parfait!

Maybe we all just need to find a perfect vintage coat? A short story + some favorites

Sep 30, 2024 • 

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In the presence of a princess

Thoughts on Princess Diana, celebrity, and playing our God-given parts

Sep 6, 2024 • 

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July 2024

The Underdog

A short story about a hundred dollar bill

Jul 29, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Sunshine House

One year of calling our house “home”

Jun 26, 2024

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Summer Daze

When the apple DOES fall far from the tree, plus some link love

Jun 7, 2024 • 

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