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What Are You Building?
This week Barbara Bush died and I saw one of her best quotes. “You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” What are you building? Is it what you need? Is it what you value? Fill in the […]
This is What Self-Care Really Means
By Brianna Wiest Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing. It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution. It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like […]
10 Reasons To Start Your Own Business
Do you need a job? Have you considered quitting your current job but not sure if it is the right decision? Are you scared of failing? of going broke? The only way to delete the “what-ifs” is to try. It’s sad to see people stick to a 9-5 job because it makes you feel safe […]
Top 10 Questions to Make 2018 Your Best Year Ever
Would you invest one hour in yourself to set up for the best year ever? Life is full and a new year is a great time to evaluate and look at where you are and where you are going. I find it helpful to answer the questions listed and write down your answer. Each one […]
The Bitter & Sweet of Christmas
Christmas Day with my husband and children was so wonderful. However this post from a friend touched my heart and reminded me about the sweet and bitter of Christmas. “Advent, like grief, is such a keen time, loaded with expectations and longings for impossible things. Advent is audacious with hope; it is pregnant with miracle. […]
How To Do Thanksgiving Without Stress, Part 2
It’s Turkey day and you, my friend, are bound for duty. You have a responsibility, an honor to get this bird on a table. This is your time. Be bold, be brave, be swift. Its go time. X hour: Good morning, sunshine! Pull the turkey and stuffing out of the fridge/cooler and place on counter. […]
Top 10 Tips I Have Learned Communicating With a Dementia Patient
My mom was diagnosed with dementia. After falling and hitting her head a few times the dementia escalated. Caring for her in the mild stage was doable. As she progressed and needed 24/7 care I was forced to put her in a skilled nursing facility. Immediately after the move she forgot my name. After she […]
Empty Nest – 5 Tips
This fall I found myself in a new phase of life. I don’t think I was ready for it but it still came like a tornado that could not be stopped. Our youngest moved off to college at Auburn. One would think that after going through this experience with the first born a […]
Alone in the Emergency Room
Until Sunday night it had been 20 years since I needed the ER for myself. Of course I have visited the dreaded place with my children and husband, but I have been fortunate. Could this be due to regular checkups or maybe a working mother not having time for such? Saturday night I felt […]
Are You Living Out Your Passion?
Passion: Strong or powerful emotion. Boundless enthusiasm. Zeal. Devotion to a cause. Intense feeling. Desire for something. An irresistible motive for a belief or action. Strong love. I believe God gives every person gifts, talents and to the Christian he gives a spiritual gift(s). Whatever your design it will tie in with your passion. Living […]
