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Introducing, Bowen Thoreau

Happy one month to our perfect addition, Bowen Thoreau, or "Beau." Born December 9th at 11:09
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Introducing, Bowen Thoreau

Bowen, baby head
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Hello, 2026.

And farewell, 2025. It's early in the morning, typing from my bed with one son on my
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Hello, 2026.

The clock in downtown Medina, NY.
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Where You Can Donate, Contribute, and Help Your Community

We love talking about food and drinks, but I love to talk about our community even more.
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Where You Can Donate, Contribute, and Help Your Community

Medina, NY, Our Life

Breaking New Ground at the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library

Last Friday morning, Roux and I stood with our neighbors and community leaders at Lee-Whedon Memorial Library,
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Medina, NY, Our Life

Breaking New Ground at the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library

Florida Recap Part 1: The Gaylord Palms Resort

Let me say this – it’s been a long time since I have been on a true vacation. Going home to the farm is bliss, but it comes with the same territory of the everyday: walking dogs, cleaning stalls, working on taming the property and other types of manual labor. It is

Home, Sweet Home

We are back from our first vacation together. Slightly burned, slightly tired, but so happy we went. The trip was not only an opportunity to spend time together after weeks living apart in two different states, but my entire family traveled south to join my brother as he took to one knee

DC Minute Takes Orlando!

We are here, safe and sound, in SUNNY Orlando Florida. Life. Is. Good. We arrived much later than expected yesterday, no thanks to storms in the South East. But after Mom and I shared the first leg of the journey from Buffalo to Atlanta, Scott and I were finally reunited in Atlanta

Dear President Obama

Dear President Obama, There comes a time in a person’s life when they feel an energy around them -an excitement that is palpable, all consuming. Many people describe that feeling as true love; the love that exists when souls collide for the first time and there is no doubt that fate was