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The Great Plan, part 3
How It All Ends It’s January first, the dawning of a new year. As has become our tradition we celebrated New Year’s Eve with a quiet...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 13, 20248 min read
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The Great Plan pt 1
A Good Start I haven’t known where to start with this. I think I just kept waiting for the resolution, the grand finale. I’ve been...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 7, 20245 min read
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Making Home pt 3
At the end of the day, home is a feeling not a place I begrudge what I just wrote above. I’ve been without a solid home of my own for...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 25, 20234 min read
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Making Home pt 2
I felt the women were being called home, what does it mean? Why have I shied away at posting this for so long when the truth raged in me...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 14, 20235 min read
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Making Home
Part 1, 2022: I walked slowly from our friends’ main house to the pool house, where my family was already tucked in. The bigger girls...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 8, 20236 min read
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Maniacally Hopeful
I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...

Emmy Pickering
Dec 28, 20215 min read
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Harder Than It Looks
Fast forward nearly 6 weeks into this journey and I have yet to take that breath. That’s not entirely true, I have experienced moments of...

Emmy Pickering
Nov 30, 20214 min read
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Answering The Call
But wherever you go, there you are. Have you heard that expression? Though our geographical location has changed by some 4000 miles south...

Emmy Pickering
Nov 2, 20215 min read
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Turtle Wisdom
My mom takes daily walks at the river by her house. There is a turtle conservation project and over time my mom has been witness to some...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 28, 20216 min read
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You Move I Move
Sometimes I think that I’m doing this manifestation thing all wrong. I’m too caught up in it, I’m hyper focused on an outcome, I can’t...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 16, 20207 min read
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Here We Are
Currently I’m sitting in my office — it’s not also a baby’s nursery, it’s not also a catch all for my kids extra stuff, it’s not either...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 9, 20206 min read
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HOME part 1
Gracie and Lily are at a sleepover as I write this, I’m in the kitchen with just Edie and she is happily eating a meal for one. To focus...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 15, 20203 min read
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Heart Magic
If you look up the antonym to logic you’ll come across a list of words that likely no one would choose to be defined by. Absurdity,...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 3, 20208 min read
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