Inspiration

“You can’t boil the ocean, if you try to, your life/blog becomes generic.” ~  Maria Ross That is my biggest takeaway from BlogHer`13. I heard it towards the beginning of Pathfinder Day, in the Keynote One to One with Maria Ross and Lesley Pinckney. Maria, a brand strategist, author, speaker and brain aneurysm survivor, has so […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the 33rd installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are […]

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The big day is almost here! After months of dreaming, praying, planning, fundraising, training and t-shirt designing/ordering/sorting/distributing the time has come to “Run for Hope and to Remember Our Babies” as part of Team Caring Connection tomorrow/Sunday, June 2nd at 8:00 a.m. in the Running for Hope 5k Run/Fun Walk benefiting Advocate Children’s Hospital and our local Ronald McDonald House! Thank you so much to all […]

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The shirts are here! I picked up over 100 of them yesterday afternoon from Mt. Greenwood Embroidery, where they were screen printed, and love how they turned out! I am so grateful to Mt. Greenwood Embroidery and Running Excels for helping us to create our Team Caring Connection t-shirts and running shirts! The four shirts pictured above are […]

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One of my newer blogging friends Em, from Teach Me to Braid, shared a beautiful and moving post earlier this month, called Church, about her efforts to raise awareness at her church about members who might find holidays such as Mother’s and Father’s Day difficult, as well as attending baptisms/dedications, because they are struggling with […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption Book Tour! This is my fifth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time and The Sound of Hope. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. […]

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