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Influenced
or how not to disappear
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Emily Henderson
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Introducing Homemaker
Answering the questions: What makes a home? How to use design when you’re not a designer. And what does it mean to be home when someone is always…
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Flash Memoir: Welcome Home
Is it ever really finished?
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Flash Memoir: Windows, Poetry and Eyes
Windows were the main driver of everything and it's just now dawned on me that maybe we were searching for light after such a dark time.
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Flash Memoir: A Roof Before the Rain
How babies are like the weather
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Flash Memoir: A House Made of Sticks
How does anyone build anything? How do you know that when you nail one piece of wood in a certain way into another piece of wood in a different way…
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Flash Memoir: Foundations
build it first and build it strong and then have the courage to mess it all up
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Flash Memoir: The Rental
The Waiting Place. We’ve been in a rental for almost two months now. The boxes are gone, and everything that has a place is in its place, but I’m not…
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Flash Memoir: Demo Day!
Last week was Demo Day, I held Tatum in the backyard while Nick and I watched an excavator move piles of splintered wood into a dumpster. “What did we…
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Flash Memoir: "I Was Here"
A painting party... Way back when we first submitted our plans to the County of Santa Barbara, I got the idea to have a painting party, where we invite…
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Flash Memoir: U-Haul
An opening scene... My husband Nick is in the driver’s seat of a U-Haul, and My daughter Peyton (10) is sitting next to him. I’m in my car. My oldest…
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