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Sometimes I Remember What Bending My Spine Feels Like

My body is falling apart. It was happening slowly, then I had a hysterectomy and now it’s happening not so slowly. When I lie on my left side, now my right leg longer than my left, above the knee. Which is interesting, because my legs were measured over a year and a half ago from the hips and that’s not the longer leg. My spine is collapsing in on itself. My hips are contorting, my spine is corksrewing like a single helix, and sometimes when I lie in the bed just right depending on […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/20/sometimes-i-remember-what-bending-my-spine-feels-like/

caroline price 3d ago

On Forgiveness

I had someone repeatedly beg me to “not be mad at me for the things I did,” his words, a while ago. What exactly did he do? Which thing, of the several I’d accused in the past, was I accurate about? I knew what I was angry about, but without an actual confession, with a blanket appeal for forgiveness without the itemized list, what was I to not be mad about? I will never know. That was December of 2024. It took me to October of 2025 to tell him in writing, that, why no, […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/19/on-forgiveness/

caroline price 4d ago

Love is Not Enough

Here is what I know: Love is not enough. Love is never enough. Love is not enough to make a relationship work. It’s just not. And I know, I know: the romantics out there would say to me: What in the world are you talking about? Love can only be enough. But…..this is what I know: Love is just not enough. I know this at a visceral, core-of-my-being. Love is not enough. You cannot love someone into living into their potential. You cannot love someone into actually trying. You […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/18/love-is-not-enough/

caroline price Jun 14

Calming the Ghosts

Jared and I are at Gallery Row, and Jared is engrossed in this work project he has been working on for at least a solid two weeks straight, and for once he was thrilled to call our date a “working date,” despite the fact that most of the time when I want to bring my laptop to Gallery Row to write, Jared says he doesn’t need his laptop; that he is happy to work off his phone. Which, to understand that, Jared has a Google Pixel Fold, so he does actually have massive phone screen real […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/13/calming-the-ghosts/

caroline price Jun 10

I’m Trying

In 2011, I qualified for SSDI at first application, without an attorney. I started attempting to go back to work in 2018. There have been lots of attempts to return to work at this point, all reported to the SSA. I desperately want to NOT need SSDI. It is NOT fun. It is not an aspiration. They know I have the photography business; I have applied for all kinds of jobs that weren’t ideal fits in desperate attempts to find any sort of employment that would allow myself to work off […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/09/im-trying/

caroline price Jun 8

Taming the Mess and the Schedule

The inside of our home is now my sanctuary. In late April, I brought in someone to help me start cleaning up our house. To say the boys’ rooms were problematic was an understatement. It wasn’t their fault: We have five pets, and I hadn’t gotten in to help them declutter or clean much in probably three years. Over the course of three visits, my helper and I tamed the mess entirely. The first visit, we tackled Porter’s room. I’d already packed up a good bit of things that […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/08/taming-the-mess-and-the-schedule/

caroline price Jun 6

I Forgot to Answer

Photo credit: Virginia Hall I don’t even remember how I got to that guy’s hotel room. He was staying at the Marriott downtown, which was uncharacteristic of him at the time. I do remember stopping for gas in Stockbridge on the way to pick him up. I was wearing a purple dress with thin straps that had sequins on them. It was relatively low cut; I couldn’t wear a bra with the dress because of the straps and low cut issues. I do remember the smile from a random guy when I stopped to […]

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/05/i-forgot-to-answer/

caroline price May 17

Returning to Wedding Photography in Greater Atlanta

In 2017, I decided I wanted to be able to photograph a wedding. Capturing quiet moments after a wedding ceremony So, I established Caroline Price Photography back in 2017, complete with a proper foundation because I wasn't willing to photograph a single wedding without a legitimate business structure. Sparkler exits are a magical way to end a wedding day and make for excellent memories captured forever 48 weddings and 11 five-star reviews between Google and my public Facebook business […]

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jan May 10

This book is about getting honest and exploring how your own stories affect you… It’s about…reframing your stories so you can choose to show up differently for yourself. And it’s about getting free by integrating all parts of who you are…in order to live a truer, more whole, and more meaningful life.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
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jan May 10

A root belief is the central belief that informs how we feel about ourselves and the world. It is from this root belief that our sense of self, our stories about who we are, and our way of being in the world are formed. What grows from it looks different for each of us… Everything grows from the root: when the root is harsh or critical, flourishing is difficult. … This is why examining our stories is so critical. … From there, we get to start choosing what we water and what we let die.
—Lisa Olivera, Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
#selfacceptance #selfexploration