Bereaved and Blessed

Thursday’s Voice: Week Four

July 26, 2012

It’s Thursday! Which means it my day to write about this week’s prompt over at The Today Voice. Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm since we launched our new writing project this month. I especially appreciate those of you have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share your thoughts on the prompts […]

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What Works at BlogHer Conferences

July 25, 2012

One week from tomorrow I will be leaving on a jet plane for my first BlogHer annual conference in NYC. I am excited and nervous being a “newbie.” I am trying to go into this experience with an open mind and few expectations. There have been a slew of great posts written recently (and in the past) […]

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Love at First Skype

July 24, 2012

Tonight Bob, Sean, Abby and I got to Skype with my sister Meg and her new baby boy Dean! As I mentioned in these posts, it has been an exciting week for our family since we found out about this new addition. We hoped and prayed that things would work out so that Meg, our brother-in-law Bill and […]

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Ideas Underwater

July 23, 2012

Towards the end of this past school year I chaperoned a field trip with my son Sean’s second grade class to the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) here in Chicago. I was responsible for exploring MSI with a group of five students, including Sean. I have always loved going to MSI and especially enjoy […]

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Gatekpeeing (7th Edition)

July 22, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the seventh edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. After the events of this past weekend, I am having trouble getting back into my blogging groove, so it seemed […]

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Let All Around Us Be Peace

July 21, 2012

This weekend has been wonderful, busy and at times bittersweet for my family and me. We got to spend quality time and had a lot of fun with loved ones, some of whom we hadn’t seen in a while, at a family reunion. In light of the family reunion, we didn’t spend much time in […]