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Reading Between The Pines

Flying to Freedom

When I was 2 years old, my parents got divorced. I was lucky in a way, because at the time I was too young to understand that this separation, at its most basic level, meant the world as I knew it had changed. By the time I turned 5, my mom had remarried. We left…

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The Ups and Downs of Change

There are many things I don’t know about life, but there’s one I absolutely do. It’s full of change in both ways we really want and others we undoubtedly don’t. One of the biggest unwelcome changes everyone must face is when a loved one passes away. The sudden absence of someone truly meaningful shifts the…

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The Little Things

In the early 90s, when McDonald’s, not Starbucks, was on every street corner and fanny packs were a thing, my husband and I met while working in downtown Chicago. We were both living in the big city right out of college on a collision course with adulthood – young, full of dreams, and broke. Back…

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Reading between the Pines

Doing Less to Achieve More

By Stacie Chadwick Recently, on my way to meet a friend, I found myself racing down I-25 with curlers in my hair, a mascara wand in my non-dominant hand making questionable contact with my lashes, and the other on the steering wheel making equally questionable contact with the lane lines. When I showed up, several…

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Losing Touch with the World

By Stacie Chadwick  On a recent family trip to Mexico, I experienced something I’d never imagined to be possible. Within two hours of landing on terra firma and barely south of the border, I lost my phone in the most unspectacular way – at the grocery store. Expertly balancing a gorgeous bottle of Clase Azul,…

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Power of The Written Word

By Stacie Chadwick In life, I’m a minimalist. Any time my husband brings something into the house, I’m on my way through a different door hauling something else out. I’m all about clean lines, order, and lists – lots and lots of lists. Giving away things I categorically label “unnecessary” makes me feel good, and…

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