I am one week away from my 1st blogging convention and I am so excited. This is a huge adventure for me. I’m heading off this trip without my usual travel companions and heading off to meet my long time best friend, Brandon. So in prepping for this trip I am getting my gear ready well ahead of time. Getting…
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Me-time, anyone? Yes, please! I think you would all agree with me that this has now become a necessity. Just like sleep. What with all the frenzy of our daily lives, it has become such an important time that we set aside for ourselves. But often, what we do during this time is never a question. The…
I was talking to a friend about what a “Professional” working woman wears to work. These days a working woman’s wardrobe is very different than it was 20 years ago. But as a blogger, my wardrobe can be very different from someone who goes in to a business every day. Many think that we get to sleep in all day, work…
Recently I ended a longtime friendship. It hurt, it felt like I was giving up on a part of my life that even as hard as I tried, no matter as much as I wanted it, it was just broken. I wanted to fix it so badly that I was always willing to give my own happiness in order to…
“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.” ― Albert Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
I love cooking a big Sunday meal for everyone. Growing up Southern, Sundays meant getting up early and heading to church. Then we’d head home and my Gram would make an early dinner. Usually those meals were her chicken fried steak, greens, potatoes, biscuits, and if I was lucky she’d make my favorite fried apple hand pies. But in…
There are few seasons l like more than summer, but Fall is quickly starting feel like the place where I want to be. It’s growing on me, year after year I find something else that draws me into the embrace of Fall’s enchantment. Summer was my season. I love the warm lazy days, sleeping in late, and don’t forget the…
I think about my childhood sometimes, trying to make peace of it and understanding. It wasn’t easy growing up with a parent with a mental illness, she just wasn’t who I needed her to be and looking at it now, I am thankful that my great-grandparents had the insight to see that when I was born and tried to step…
I had a star struck moment today. I am such a dork. I am a huge fan of Problogger’s Darren Rowse. I’ve written a few posts about my admiration of his work and I am a weekly follower of his podcasts. So when I joined his blogger’s challenge group on Facebook a few weeks ago I was the biggest dork. What…
I love brownies. I love them warm and chewie. So when I went gluten-free this summer I worried that I would have a hard time finding a recipe for brownies that wouldn’t come out grainy or dry. There is nothing worse than biting into a browie to find it taste more like playdough than chocolate. So I scoured the internet…
