Happy Independence Day! Last week I wrote a blog post, scheduled it, and published it, but I had one problem with it: I thought I could have done better. The title, in my opinion, was way better than the content. (You can read it here and judge for yourself) The …
Check It Out: Don’t Let People’s Character Surprise You
I’m continuing my links back to previous posts today. Click here to read it. Today, I want to look back at a very early post, but a lesson that covers a hard lesson I’ve learned over time, and one I come back to frequently–don’t be surprised by a person’s character. …
Check It Out: Start Somewhere
As I mentioned on Tuesday, I’m going to start sharing some early blog posts. This one, titled “Start Somewhere”, seems a fitting place to start. Here’s a glimpse, click to read the rest. I am a thinker. I have a terrible tendency to be able to argue both sides, even …
Mistakes Make Us Who We Are
In High School I judged Dairy Products for our FFA chapter. If you’ve seen Napoleon Dynamite, it was not quite that awkward, but it was close. I will never forget the hardest lesson I learned from judging Dairy Products: never second guess my first reaction. This lesson was learned when …
Mid-Summer Check In
Wow. Just wow. January 30 was when I started blogging regularly on this site. I started out because I had a simple idea I felt like I needed to share. (You can read more about that here.) Today, we are nearing the end of June, which means I have been …