Category: life

What Influence Meant to Me

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What did the Influence Conference mean to me? So much.  So very much. Like I wrote about on Sunday, there was just something about the conference that was unexpected, yet completely lovely. I went into it thinking it would be one thing, a blogging conference, and left realizing it was something else entirely. When I was…

The Day After…

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Oh, conferences. They wreck me, inspire me and challenge me. It’s always an interesting mash up of emotions as I come face to face with my thoughts, hopes and dreams. I never really know what to expect and I never really know what will happen. For the Influence Conference, I had even less of an…

Another Crazy Week

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It’s 7:46am on Monday and I can barely keep my eyes open. I’ve already been to Indianapolis and back dropping Tim, Korry and Ken off at the airport (they’re headed to a media convention). I couldn’t sleep last night because I was worried about oversleeping, and don’t like the fact that I won’t get to…

New Eyes

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So, in less than a week I will have ‘new’ eyes. that’s right, my LASIK appointment is Friday at 12:40pm in Indianapolis. I am nervous and excited all at the same time. Here are some of the things I’m most looking forward to as I think of a glasses/contacts free life. 1. No longer being…

Thoughts for 2008

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I stopped making resolutions awhile ago. They never seemed to work out for me anyway and I would often feel like I failed too much when I made them and they didn’t work out. So, these are not resolutions – just goals/plans/hopes for 2008 🙂 Lose Weight. Yeah, I know it’s the usual new year’s…

So Fragile

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(WARNING: if you’re in a happy holiday mood, you may want to skip this post until after the holidays) I was reminded again this week just how fragile life is. It ended way too soon for a member of my family on Monday. 14 years old. It’s a tragic story I won’t go into here…

The Impossible Dream

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson One a recent Sunday morning in Bloomington, 2,000 people were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to think about their passions, their dreams, and what is…

Long Time No Blog

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I know I have been MIA from blogland for awhile now. Life has been moving forward full steam ahead and a pace, an extremely hectic pace, that I did not anticipate ever happening all at once. And, part of the reason I haven’t been available in blogland is because so much of what was happening…

The “Ugh” Factor

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It’s been one of those weeks. I’ve been too busy and overwhelmed at work to really think about my diet. I’ve been too tired at home to do anything but crawl into bed. There have been too many emotions going through me all at once. I feel like the wind is being slowly drained from…

On Writing

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One of the best books I have ever read on what it means to write, and to be a writer, is Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” I know it may seem like a strange choice of book for someone like me, but the truth is, I really enjoy King. Sure, he’s…