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By Lauren Schwab As another year comes to pass, I have felt it all. Sadness, regret, fear, loneliness, anxiety, tiredness, exhaustion and pain. Despite this, I have felt happiness, clarity, hope, anticipation, excitement, fulfillment and gratitude. It is easy to let our negatives outweigh the positives and it is also easy to let them get […]
Read MoreBy Lauren Schwab I have come to learn there will never be a perfect time in your life to accomplish your dreams, you have to create it. Don’t be comfortable and satisfied in life. When you are not pursuing your goals you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have a goal that stretches you […]
Read MoreBy Lauren Schwab How bad do you want success? Do you really want it or just kind of want it? Do you love sleep more than success? My dad doesn’t. Right now I should already be in bed because when the clock strikes 4 a.m. oinks are calling for me. For my dad, when the […]
Read MoreBy Lauren Schwab Mark Twain said, “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” What do you want? The answer should seem simple enough, yet is often disguised by confusion and fear of regret, mistake, […]
Read MoreOur Farmland By Lauren Schwab From time to time I find myself standing in the barnyard pondering at the sky. I almost feel an invisible bubble has been placed around our farmland we have come to know and center our lives around. While we are often in this bubble as a family we are not […]
Read MoreBy Lauren Schwab Being a farm girl, it isn’t easy to transition a look from day to night. There must be a switch from work boots to sandals or heels. Style was always an underlying thought in my head. I have realized it conveys much more about one’s personality, level of respect for themselves and how […]
Read MoreBy Lauren Schwab I captured this view from the plane window on my way home from Iowa this past week. I was in awe to have a view above the clouds. As a young girl I always imagined Heaven this way. An endless pillow of clouds and rays of light. Perhaps the feeling of being […]
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2/25/14 By Lauren Schwab As my alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, my first instinct is to hit the snooze button. Then I hear cracks in the old wood as my dad walks down the staircase and poors his bowl of cereal. My cat usually meows and licks my face informing me […]
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Farm Girl With Curls 