I just got some sad news today: I think the Time Out for Women event on November 4th in Phoenix is already sold out! (Click here for details about the event if you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about 🙂 I have already had a bunch of friends ask about any extra opportunities…
I took a little “business trip” last weekend. First of all, have I ever mentioned how thankful I am for opportunities like this? Yes, I think I have…over and over. I felt so humbled and grateful to get to speak at the Spokane Time Out for Women last Saturday. And to do it with my…
(That’s short for Time Out For Women, in case you, like me before this weekend, have never been to one of these shin digs.) And if you haven’t been, man alive you better figure out how to get yourself to one because I can’t believe how well-run and outstanding this whole event was. I really…
My friends and I sat in the audience of Time Out for Women a few weeks ago, bathed in the goodness those speakers were spreading out. And I had a weird moment of wonder remembering how years ago my mom and I were on that stage spilling out our guts. My mom more than me:…
Mother’s Day this time around was one I won’t soon forget, nestled in a hospital room with my Lucy, entrenched in the heat of mothering, trying my darnedest to harness my “inner-Linda”…the part of me that I search for often, that part of my mother who I hope runs through my veins. (She is the…
First of all, I cannot believe it is NOVEMBER. This is the time of year I start to stress out because I know what’s coming: Children for Children concert (more on that below), Turkey Trot (you can sign up HERE if you want to join us! And it’s early-bird registration right now), Thanksgiving (Dave’s whole…
This is my mother: I feel heavy with love for her always. But specifically for the last couple days in preparation for Mother’s Day. The way she was… The things I don’t remember but see in pictures…they way she made me shine. The way she wore hip, plaid bell-bottoms. The way her smile and goodness…
Dang it, I wanted to write about this a long time ago because it came to me so easy this year, but I guess I was too busy doing it to actually write about it before now, and I guess that’s what it’s all about, right? So here we go. It was easy-peasy to think…