Paper Route

They had a sweet starter home in a master-planned community, facing a lake. The kind of first home you picture when you imagine starting out: modest, just enough space, and full of potential. But after some difficult seasons, they were ready for a new beginning. When Starting Over Doesn’t Mean Starting Somewhere Else The neighborhood […]

I met her at church years ago, back when I was doing bespoke wedding stationery and art. I had just had my second child. She wasn’t married yet, but she and her now-husband were engaged. At the time, I did creative projects and writing for our women’s ministry. We crossed paths in that season and […]

Some homes carry generations. They hold the afternoons and summers and ordinary Tuesdays of people who are no longer here. And when it comes time to let them go, the transaction is never just about the house. This was a 100-year-old bungalow in the historic part of Montrose. It had belonged to an aunt and […]

And The Permission it Gave Others There are some stories I hold more carefully than others. Not because they’re fragile, but because I don’t know all the details. This is one of them about a woman who exemplifies strength, determination, and the ability to create beauty in the everyday. What I Saw She was a […]

and the coming soon sign that changed the search… I met Mike and Emma at an open house across the freeway from where they lived. They were looking, but not urgently. Just…looking. They had two little ones and a 100-year-old bungalow that was bursting at the seams. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, 1,000 square feet of […]

and where we want to be… There’s a particular kind of homesickness that doesn’t announce itself loudly. It settles in over years – through missed birthdays, holidays spent on video calls, grandchildren who grow up in a different city. It’s the slow accumulation of distance, even when the reasons for that distance once made perfect […]

There are houses you walk through that still hold the warmth of the people who built them. This was one of those homes: custom-designed, every detail chosen with intention, set on acreage where roots were supposed to deepen and grandchildren were supposed to run. When we first met to talk through selling, the seller wasn’t […]

i miss the garden. not just the herbs and flowers, not just the tomatoes heavy on the vine or the eggplant taking shape…but the rhythm of it all. the steady pace of tending. the built-in pauses and the way a garden teaches you to trust what you can’t yet see. we had plans this spring…a […]

You are the architect of your home, the designer that plans and cultivates the breath and life that fills its walls. Without fore thought and direction, it will become whatever it becomes without intentionality. With a blueprint however, it will grow into a safe haven of belonging and knowing that “here, I am loved and […]

when I started in real estate the primary way I learned how to generate leads was through open houses. 80% of buyers that go into open houses are unrepresented. and alongside learning how to break down walls and earn trust in less than five minutes, I was taught to focus on buyers with a quick […]