Your Life Deserves Adventure
My mother died on July 7, 2008. A year later I wrote the blog post below. My title at the time was “I wish I had a recording of her voice.” The two things I missed the most then, and now, are her voice and the feel of her hands. My mother’s hands were always […]
I just returned from my first ever National Conference. As a consultant for Norwex, and recently promoted Team Coordinator), I felt like I should definitely go and experience a national conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect and more importantly I wasn’t sure how I would feel about being there. As an Introvert – friendly, […]
We are a species that craves community and friends and Facebook has allowed us to revolutionize where we find these things and how we satisfy that craving. Although there are multiple platforms that allow friendships to develop, Facebook is the one that is most commonly used and the one that I am most familiar with. […]
I’m 53. You would think I’d know everything I’m going to know at this point. But, every single day I learn something new and I love it. Whether it’s about neuroscience (my favorite genre of non-fiction), or Facebook friend lists and other social media stuff, or nutrition, or new uses for old products, or just […]
I have a long history of using the qualifier “just” in reference to myself. I bet you do too. I just stay home with my kids. I don’t have a job. I just have an Associate’s Degree…but I read a lot! I just play the piano for myself. I don’t play for other people. I […]
This post is a throw-back post. It was originally written on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009, as my family and I were coming to the end of a marvelous 3-year post in Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovina. We LOVED our time there and these are purely my own observations at the time, immersed there and sad to […]
I haven’t always been Fat. When people meet me for the first time, at over 300 pounds, and they learn that I was quite a normal weight, even thin, all through high school, they appear surprised. That doesn’t mean I was without weight issues in high school; they just weren’t what I thought they were. […]
Does anyone else feel their heart beating a little faster as January 1 approaches? It’s going to be a New Year New Me and I’m oh-so-ready for it. Any bad habits I haven’t dropped cease to bother me because, after all, in just a few days the New Me will emerge, like a beautiful butterfly, […]
