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Welcome to my Journey.

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Jamie Wood | Writer + Blogger | Southern Lady Stories

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Notes From The Road
Chicago and the Long Goodbye
Chicago and the Long Goodbye

Since receiving the news last year that the Casual Market would be moving from Chicago to Atlanta in 2023, it has felt like the long goodbye to a city I love.

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Lift High The Cross
Lift High The Cross

Do you ever give thought to what motivates you to rise each day? What is it that makes you get out of bed and put one foot in front of the other and move through this crazy world we find ourselves in?

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Waiting for the Clouds
Waiting for the Clouds

Have you ever found yourself waiting on the perfect cloudy day? If you’re like me, probably not. My perfect forecast is sunshine and pretty blue skies.

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All Work and No Play?
All Work and No Play?

When we received the news last fall about the extended dates and hours for the High Point Market, I immediately began planning our home away from home stay. First on my list, was to find us a comfortable place to stay for that length of time. A hotel was not going to cut it for the 10-day stay that would be required of us.

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Sometimes I Sits and Think, and Sometimes I just Sits…
Sometimes I Sits and Think, and Sometimes I just Sits…

I left my position of 18 years as the director of a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate to be his travel buddy. When I left that position, I jokingly told Tim I was going to need to direct something and I was definitely going to need a title!

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On the Road Again
On the Road Again

Like most of you in this business, we started 2020 with so much work travel on the books we really weren’t sure how we’d be able to accomplish it all. I felt tired at times just thinking about it! If you’ve been required to shelter in place, by now you are probably feeling like us, rested and ready to get “On the Road Again”.

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Is it a Keeper?
Is it a Keeper?

I suspect, if you are like me, you’ve composed letters in your head from time to time that never made it to paper. Perhaps it was the angry letter that probably should never have made its way onto paper, and if it did, certainly not stamped and mailed.

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Southern Hospitality
Southern Hospitality

According to Wikipedia, Southern Hospitality is a phrase used to stereotype residents of the Southern United States as particularly warm, sweet and welcoming to visitors to their home, or the South in general.

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She Was A Good Ole Girl!
She Was A Good Ole Girl!

When I was introduced to my husband, Tim, for the first time, I learned quickly he had another love and it was a love that could not be replaced.

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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?

A movie I watched a few years ago ended with a gentleman standing on a busy street corner, and in a very loud and memorable voice he kept repeatedly saying to the folks passing him by, “What’s your story?’’

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