A letter to your mother | Mother’s Day Week Journal Prompt Series
When I was 5 years old, my mother left my father. She was seven months pregnant at the time, headed into an uncertain future, and she packed us up and moved three…
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Hard times | Mother’s Day Week Journal Prompt Series
I’ve always believed that the relationship between a mother and a daughter is one of the most complicated that exists. It is filled with so much joy and heaviness and struggle and…
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How are you like your mother? | Mother’s Day Week Journal Prompt Series
In the early 90s, while I was rocking brown lipstick (Revlon’s Cocoa Bean anyone?), crushed velvet dresses, green and black french manicures, and soothers strung around my neck as an ill advised…
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Five lessons | Mother’s Day Week Journal Prompt Series
I read somewhere that over the course of a lifetime, the average mom will pass along 41 “pearls of wisdom” to her children. Forty one doesn’t seem like that many to me,…
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What is your mother’s story? | Mother’s Day Journal Prompt Series
Mother’s Day is approaching (HOW is it May already?!) and with that, Christine and I decided we really wanted to create a series of blog posts for Mother’s Day. The twist here…
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The Vivid & Brave Besties Contest: Favourite Things
No, the contest isn’t really my favourite thing. (Though it’s going to be awesome! Details below.) My favourite thing is besties. Specifically, my own, but generally, the close, supportive bonds that we…
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The Love & Sex Series – Journal Prompt #4 – Your fantasies
This week, with Valentine’s Day just a day away, we are digging in with a journal prompt series talking about Love & Sex. What do you fantasize about? What I particularly love…
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The Love & Sex Series – Journal Prompt #3 – The one that broke your heart
As human beings, we are love driven. Love and all that it brings with it is vital to all of us. Falling in love is the ultimate moment of vulnerability. Those we…
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Get Inspired – Inspire Photo Retreat
Back in September, just before our big Vivid & Brave launch, Christine & I applied to speak at Inspire Photo Retreat 2014. Inspire is a retreat style conference for photographers that will…
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Take a Journey of Self-Discovery
My science fair experiments in junior high focused around the science of photography. When I went to high school in Illinois, I had an art teacher that recognized my talent and allowed…
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