This time of year, with all the Christmas wish lists, endless catalogs arriving in the mail, an email inbox filled with new sales every day, and the general hustle and bustle of the season, it can be easy to lose sight of what really matters. If you feel like you (or your family) needs a…
I turn 39 this Friday, and I started my first biz when I was 22. It feels like a long time ago. I took $1500 of babysitting money, and over the course of the next ten years, turned it into a business doing almost two million dollars gross annually. It was awesome, until it wasn’t….
I’ve mentioned curveballs on this blog before, right? They seem to be good things to blog about, and blogging about them helps me see the good in them, difficult as they may be. This past April, the love of my life threw me another one. He’s getting good at that—too good, I’d say. I love…
We all do some reflection from time to time right? We think back to what we were doing this time last week, last month, last season or maybe last year. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I can shrug off the results of that reflection: “meh, same ol’, same ol’,”. But there have been…
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A guest post by Jess Connolly To say the burden on the women in our current culture is heavy is a vast understatement. As if the crushing weight of all women are expected to do and be wasn’t enough, the situation is only made more precarious because the expectations change drastically from city to city,…
I can hold a mean grudge. I’m not proud of it. I don’t like the idea of it. But I do it anyway; more often than I’d care to admit. Because the other option—processing, forgiving, moving on—can seem a lot harder. Interestingly, I do like the idea of forgiveness. I know that it is healing;…
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A guest post by Jess Connolly part one I talk to women all the time about their blogs and their online businesses. It’s one of my favorite things to do. Help them determine who they’re writing to and what those people want to hear. When it comes to my own little space on the internet,…
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A guest post by Jess Connolly I have never had a season before in my faith where I really struggled with, well… FAITH. I’ve had flashes of confusion or fear, but never full-on periods where I stopped believing in God or started questioning His goodness. Until this Lent. And this Lent, when by all appearances…
“Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say to the universe, ‘Thy will be done,’ . . . and allow your life to go into the hands of the universe completely.” -Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul You could say I’m a bit of a control freak. But that’s pretty standard…
