In the whirl of moving back home to Michigan and simultaneously taking on a new role at work, I took a month off from Share Four Somethings (and from many other things, some for several months, as I just couldn’t keep all the balls in the air), but it feels good to be back, tapping…
Welcome back to Share Four Somethings, a monthly link-up with my friend Heather Gerwing. I’m enjoying listing out my four somethings every month–it’s like an exercise in narrowing in on gratitudes. I invite you to join me in the journey, whether you’re a blogger or not. You don’t need to publish a post–just grab your…
My friend Heather Gerwing over at Living the Full Life hosts a monthly link-up (a way for writers to post on a topic of the same thing and connect their posts) called Share Four Somethings–Something Loved, Something Read, Something Treasured, Something Ahead. Heather has been growing this post community for three years now, and I’ve…
Last February at the IF: Gathering conference in Austin, Texas, Ann Voskamp talked about the ways women compare themselves to other women, and then she dramatically broke a wooden ruler in half to illustrate how we all need to break our internal measuring sticks, the ones that say we come up short. I’ve thought about…
Last Friday, E graduated with his Masters. L, who’s been watching a lot of Frozen, spent the whole week calling it his “cornoration.” I still can’t quite believe it. It honestly feels like we just started out on this crazy journey toward a new career for him. Didn’t we just move? Didn’t he just go…
You might remember my Things I’m Loving Now series. Friends and readers have repeatedly told me how much they enjoyed the recommendations and inspiration in those posts, so I’m doing something similar in a new format: a once-a-month email newsletter delivered just to subscribers. But it’s going to be more than just a list of…