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GIVEAWAY: Listen to Your Mother tickets!

It’s coming! It’s coming! The NWA Listen to Your Mother show will be here before you know it. And it’s officially SOLD OUT. But you’ve come to the right place — I’ve got two tickets to give away! If you’ve managed to miss all of the recent excitement — here’s a crash course in LTYM: [...]

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Finding my voice

I spent most of my high school weekends traveling the state, competing in speech and drama tournaments. My friends and I spent weeks scouring scene books and collections of poetry and stories, then memorizing, rehearsing, and fine-tuning our pieces to get ready for the next tournament. We practiced pace, volume, diction. We traveled by school [...]

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Grand Re-Opening | Spotlight: Travel

At 19, I got my passport. And by that point, I’d visited 20ish of 50 states. Heck, I’d LIVED IN four of them! I doubt it was intentional, but my parents raised children with varying levels of wanderlust — and I’m no exception. I genuinely want to see the world, and I’m always looking for [...]

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Grand Re-Opening | Spotlight: Life List

Sometimes I fantasize of a world in which living out my life list is my job. In my daydream, someone somewhere is willing to pay me to tackle one adventure after the next — and write about it. I travel the world, meet fascinating people, try new things, laugh a lot, and have an incredible [...]

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Grand Re-Opening | Spotlight: Running

Even after all this time, it’s weird. If I use a handful of words to describe myself – “runner” is one of them. Funny how things happen, huh? If you’re new-ish around here you may not understand why it’s weird, but it hasn’t been that long ago I ran my first mile – and it [...]

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