This post brought to you by Soffe. The content and opinions expressed below are that of inspiredRD. Let me just start this post by saying: Hi, My name is Alysa, and I have posted Selfies. I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We all do it. But how much is too much? How many times have I posted a selfie just to maybe (hopefully) get a compliment or two. How many…
I didn’t pick up my camera for a few months (Yikes!) over the winter because of my surgery and being stuck in the house and blah blah blah. Then April came, and BAM I had a month solid of weddings, senior sessions, and family shoots. I’m still making my way through the edits, but here are a few peeks into what I’ve been working on lately. (Click on any photo…
I’m a big believer in keeping margins in my life. Space to breathe during the day. Time to read, craft, or simply sit with my family. April seems to be a crazy month for me. There are a few obvious reasons for this, Joe and Leila both have April birthdays and baseball season begins this month. This year I am also crammed with photo shoots. Weddings and senior sessions have me shooting…
I’m trying to find words other than GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW to tell you about Rachel Held Evan’s new book Searching for Sunday. So let me start with these words from the back cover. Like millions of her millenial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn’t want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals – church culture seemed so far removed from…
Last year, Susie Schnall, author of The Balance Project and On Grace interviewed me about that mythical unicorn of “doing it all” that we seem to be obsessed with. The interview is finally up, and I would love to have you go check it out here. Because really, I don’t do it all. I don’t have it all. And balance? Let’s just say I haven’t found it yet.
Two years ago I posted a list of my favorite gluten-free restaurants in Phoenix. I wanted to share the places where I feel safe with anyone who is in the area and needs a good gluten-free meal. I had been meaning to update the list for a few months now because I have expanded my own personal favorite list, and of course restaurants open and close every day. Then I…
Sometimes in this, the social media age, it’s hard to know exactly what the word “friend” means. I’ve been called “friend” by people I’ve never met on Twitter. I have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook, I wave at “friends” across the room at church. It’s easy to feel surrounded by friends, except how many of these people really know me? How many of these friends would let me into their house…