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About Lori Finding Joy

Native Mainer. Compulsive knitter. Occasional writer. Bird watcher, star gazer, window dreamer. Mom.

A Knitting Project

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Lori Finding Joy

A coworker is expecting, and I was going crazy waiting for her to find out the baby’s gender so I could knit something.  (Blame it on my grandmothers, but I believe every baby needs something handmade, practicality be damned, and … Continue reading →

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Arizona, in Pictures

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Lori Finding Joy
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Bird Chronicles, Arizona Edition

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Lori Finding Joy

Last week we spent a few days visiting E’s family out in Arizona.  Except for brief work trips to California and El Paso, Texas, I’ve spent very little time in the Western US, so it was a great treat for … Continue reading →

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The Year of Impossible Things

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Lori Finding Joy

Usually I love a good bout of end-of-year navel gazing, but 2015?  Hoooo boy.  Even after two weeks of vacation time to ponder, I’m not sure I’ve wrapped my head around it.  And I feel like I must have stolen the … Continue reading →

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A Playlist

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

Every once and awhile I look at Erik and say, “Hey.  We got MARRIED!”.  Losing my dad so soon after the wedding took the wind out of our sails, to put it mildly, and certainly took the focus off being … Continue reading →

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Diversions

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

So here we are, almost a month since my dad died.  I cried every day for three weeks, and then I wrote my blog post and felt a lot better.  Writing is cathartic for me, and it helped that so … Continue reading →

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The Hardest Thing

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

Ten days after our wedding, my dad passed away. It wasn’t entirely unexpected; we knew he was sick, and we knew that at the end of August his doctors had given him 2-3 months to live.  However, he didn’t even … Continue reading →

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The One Where We Got Married.

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

So.  We got married on Saturday. In no particular order… I loved that my dad was there to walk me down the aisle. I loved that it was small and intimate. I loved that we wrote our own ceremony, peppered … Continue reading →

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Back to Baxter

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

Two weeks ago, we made a last-dash run over to REI and finished packing the car, and by 7:30 the next morning we were headed north up to Baxter State Park for a few days of camping.  Our goals were … Continue reading →

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Affording a Maine Wedding

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Lori Finding Joy

After our initial wedding plans went up in smoke, I was — oddly enough — relieved.  Relieved because I had been up in Maine the weekend before it all went south, and I was really sad that we weren’t getting … Continue reading →

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