All Posts

Poured by: Kayla Copeland, PLA Music has a sneaky way of taking us somewhere before we even realize what happened. One second you are driving to the grocery store, thinking about your list and whether you really need another houseplant, and the next you are emotionally back in a completely different chapter of life. My current favorite, Opalite by Taylor Swift, makes me happy and want to dance. Wagon Wheel takes me right back to college nights at Lake McMurtry, sitting around

Poured by: Kayla Copeland, PLA Some people back up to golf courses or lake views. We got a slightly unruly Oklahoma field… that apparently doubles as a five-star firefly resort. I didn’t plan for that. When we built our home in 2024, I was focused on cabinets, paint colors, and how many hydrangeas I could fit in my front bed….not insect habitat. We knew our church owned the property behind us, but we didn’t realize it came with a hidden amenity: a perfectly imperfect field, q

Poured by: Kayla Copeland, PLA The Sweet Spot There are few things more satisfying than reading an article that confirms what a profession has been saying all along. Not in a smug way. Okay, maybe a little in a smug way. But mostly in a deeply validating, pass-the-highlighter kind of way. That was exactly the feeling while reading Cory Matteson’s “Safe by Design” in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of Rails to Trails magazine. The article puts real data behind something that come