I'm a mom, a newlywed, and a photographer in the Bluegrass. This is my one year challenge to live life with more romance and adventure. More →
Hands down our favorite Bluegrass Romance Project Mini-Mission was No.8: Participate in the Art at 21C Museum Hotel. So grateful we got to make these memories at this one-of-a-kind Louisville hotel before we left the bluegrass. Take a look at the video below to catch a summary of our shenanigans. (Note: This mini-mission could have [...]
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Here is a funny thing about adventures– when you sign on to them with your whole heart, they take on a life of their own, leading you places you never dreamed to go. When I got the idea for the Bluegrass Romance project, I was at a place in my life where I desperately needed [...]
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There once was a lady named Bright Who traveled much faster than light. She set off one day, in a relative way, and returned on the previous night. Thanks to an email from a reader and a bit of reflection, I’ve decided to take a brief summer intermission from blogging. Perhaps I’ll use the extra [...]
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The groves were God’s first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn” Last Sunday, 60 ft above the earth, a little yellow butterfly landed by my foot on the bark of a giant red oak tree. Yes, I was 60 ft in the air…and I was climbing a tree like I had only done in [...]
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A few weeks back my husband surprised me with one of our best dates of all time: private dance lessons for the two of us. We learned how to dance Rumba to Lady in Red (which is an uber-romantic song to begin with– throw in slow-dancing with the love of your life and it is [...]
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In my early twenties, one month before my short-lived career as a flight attendant, I flew to Italy to spend two weeks monastery hopping– kinda like hostel hopping, or bar hopping, but not really. Actually, not at all like hostel hopping or bar hopping. Those two activities being very rowdy and social in nature, monastery [...]
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One of my principles for living a life of romance and adventure is ask for forgiveness not permission. While this is not a lesson I will be teaching my three year old son, Lucca, anytime soon (he still needs to learn the art of obeying) it is a lesson to spark new life in adult [...]
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Surely, the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on the axis of pure joy. -Louise Bogan As the weather around us gets hotter and even more beautiful, and the call to summer vacations get louder and louder, Mr. Cecil and I made a decision that will greatly effect our summer plans: We decided [...]
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Lexington has it’s own slice of Americana, right off Richmond Rd. When we heard the Lexington Ice Center had one of the Travel Channel’s Top 10 Most Unique Miniature Golf courses in all of the United States, we wondered why no one had told us about this place before. These guys have been featured on [...]
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Call me crazy, but I’ve started another project. Today I launched a new blog that is all about falling in love with life. The Bluegrass Romance project is what inspired it. The experience of seeking out romance and adventure weekly has sparked in me a desire to share with others how they can do it [...]
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