Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.

I never got to hear many stories from when my dad was in the Marines. And by the time I saw the movie Forest Gump in 1994, where he goes to serve in Vietnam, my dad had been gone for a few weeks or a month and I couldn’t ask him questions about that either. […]
Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.
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Somehow it doesn’t seem like it’s been 18 years. Sometimes it seems like it was more recent than that. And sometimes it seems like it didn’t really happen at all. Every year, on August 9, I’m overly aware of the date. It’s not something that shuts me down and keeps me from functioning, but it’s […]