Mindset

My mom used to call me Imelda, after Imelda Marcos, the woman who owned more than a thousand pair of shoes. True story. From shoes to hats to purses to gemstones to old never-developed film rolls to birthday cards from my childhood, I've always been a collector of things, especially pretty things. My favorite stores were TJ Maxx and Hobby Lobby because I could walk around for hours, fill up ...

A year ago, my husband and I left our hometown in northern Indiana for Austin, Texas. We sold our house, tons of our belongings and Mark left his job of eleven years. We did all this to take a leap of faith to start life in a new place. The path through life isn't a straight line. After staying in Texas for a year, we decided it wasn't going to ...