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Category: Dallas

bittersweet: part three

In the months leading up to my now hours-away move, I was able to push off the floodgates of emotion I knew hoped were coming by placing them behind Children’s Camp with The Village Church. As long as Children’s Camp hadn’t happened, I still had at least 10 days left in Texas, and besides not [...]

bittersweet: part two

At what point did Dallas become a place that I would find hard to leave? I can distinctly remember driving Skylar behind a moving truck that Mikey and I were sharing when we first moved to Dallas back in 2006. I looked at the skyline and how relatively close our apartment was to it, and [...]

The bike crash heard ‘roud Dallas

The weather this week in Dallas has been nearly perfect: the kind of weather that makes you feel convicted for not spending time outdoors, and that makes you question the sanity of people driving with their windows up. The weight of that conviction paired with my needing to scout some locations for this weekend’s photo [...]

Reflect(ion)

Companies odfm Would Like to Put Out of Business

On the heels of my 500th post (in which I offered every ounce of help I could muster to aspiring, up-and-coming bloggers), I’d like to continue in the helpful spirit by telling the masses about a few particularly bad experiences I’ve had with local companies so that they won’t make the same mistakes I did [...]