August Update

Hi, I’m Emily! 👋🏻

Things I’ve been thinking about lately:

📓 School—it’s starting! In my house in 2025, this means elementary school, high school, and college.

🍎 For the 4th grader, this is her first year as a full-time student. It was her idea; it was my idea, too. Early mornings and daily dress code, here we come!

🛏️ For college, this means dorm life and community living. I’m happy for him. I also asked him to send me extra text messages. 

💃🏻 Cha-cha and tango and rumba, these are my new favorite things. Jared made decades of my dreams come true in January when he started us on dance lessons. I wish I were better than I am, and I’m much better than when I started! I told our instructor that his job with us novices is rather like teaching a toddler how to walk.

📝 Work—there’s more of it. I’m missing my favorite Work Buddy, who shifted her role and will now be found less among the grown-ups, more among the youth. I have an office, my camera, and my best gel pen for checking off to-do lists. 

📸 Photos, because I’m happy when I’m thinking about photos. July brought epic sessions, and I’m grateful to have been part of them!

I hope you’re finding moments to pause and breathe here in early August. 

(Pictured below is a before-and-after retouch of me downtown, for overall glow and background.)