Growing up, I had pink wallpaper in my room. But that was the extent of my girliness. I have a picture of me as a three-year old, and I’m wearing a pantsuit. No bows, no dresses, just a simple haircut with blunt bangs and a pantsuit. My heroes growing up were Luke Skywalker...
This summer, my family had the enormous privilege of traveling to Iceland for a ten-day vacation. My husband, Mark, likes leading our family to explore less traveled corners of the world, and Iceland has fascinated him for years. We loved our time there. The Icelanders we met were...
No one has ever mistaken me for an outdoorsy person. All the way back to my toddler days, I’ve largely had an aversion to being (or at least feeling) dirty, and the adventure of camping has pretty much no traction with me. I hold this in tension with the fact that I still...