The Power of Community
Yesterday, I stumbled across GoFundMe when a friend linked to a particular crowd funding page. While I found it interesting, I didn’t connect with the story on a number of levels but admittedly most of all it was because of …
Yesterday, I stumbled across GoFundMe when a friend linked to a particular crowd funding page. While I found it interesting, I didn’t connect with the story on a number of levels but admittedly most of all it was because of …
I was absolutely appalled at yesterday’s SCOTUS decision to allow family run companies to deny birth control coverage to their female employees while citing their deep religious beliefs. I grew up in a world where women had the right to …
Years ago, while doing a short stint in Human Resources, I had the opportunity to work with Paul Sherman in Learning and Development. L&D was a funny choice for me because I’m the type of person that lives on auto-pilot, …
I’ve been AWOL lately and perhaps even by my own volition. It’s been a crazy few weeks and I haven’t even had time to think, let alone to decide what I wanted to share with you. In any case, it’s …
For years, I’ve been inspired by a wonderful friend of mine. She comes from the School of Hard Knocks and since I’m not ready to write my memoirs, I decided to write a fictionalized novel based on her experiences. Over …
For most of my life (and for five of the eight), I only bothered with tattoos when I was traveling. I walked into that first tattoo shop in central Florida, 17 and with emancipation papers in hand, and pored over …
Somehow, this appeared on The Boy’s radar so we spent 90 minutes of our lives watching it. I want to preface this post with three things: (1) these are just my opinions so take them with a grain of salt; …
I recently jumped onto the Community bandwagon – a show about a group of seven misfits attending a community college. It took a while for me to get there, clearly, and I was incredibly resistant when it became the new …
I have spent the better part of a year attempting to fix something that was broken for a long time before I finally worked up the nerve to change my life. Some tell me that celebrating this is essentially ridiculous …
“Every Friday I post a list of five things for which I’m grateful. I try to sit in silence for a half hour a night. I’m focused on my creative projects. I’m managing my time better and I realize that …