all photos by Emma Parker Photography For as long as I can remember, I have had long, straight brown hair. Sometimes I go a little darker, but I rarely go lighter and I haven’t cut my hair short since elementary…

photos by Emma Parker Photography I was on spring break this week, and while it was not like the spring breaks I spent during my undergrad years, on the beach somewhere, (I was working most of the week), Nick was…

The first warm day in Ohio after months of depression freezing darkness is always the same. Every year.  People creep out of their houses like bears post-hibernation, or what I imagine cave men looked like emerging from their caves after…

all photos by emma parker photography   I am a southern girl.  I wasn’t even born in the south, just raised there.  But in my heart I know I am home whenever I am in the south.  Any any good…

Today is my birthday. Over the years, I occasionally I feel small pangs of anxiety about getting older and nostalgia over things never being quite the same. But I am fortunate to have a birthday that is so close to…