The Wisdom, the Flex, and the Food
Yesterday, Theresa and I spent a handful of hours cooking together. She prepped salad fixings and veggies to dip in hummus; I roasted off some other veggies, made the hummus, … Read More
Resolve to Re-Start
January 6, 2020
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Sarah B
Babe Ruth had a batting average of .342. This is a very good batting average, well above average in baseball. This very good batting average is essentially saying that Babe … Read More
Revealing the Invisible Ink of Our Gradual Growth: A Year End Practice
December 30, 2019
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Sarah B
When I was a teen, I got stress headaches. Not every so often but multiple a day for several years. And then one day, I realized that it had been … Read More
Gift Budgets and the Pain of Uncertainty
December 22, 2019
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Sarah B
Last week, I messaged Theresa from the aisles of a store: “How much trouble will I be in if I go a little over our gift budget?” On this, our … Read More
Unfortunately/Fortunately: A Perpetual Gratitude Practice
December 2, 2019
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Sarah B
Next Sunday will mark the 3rd anniversary of the death of a man I always called Daddy Harold. I was in my 20s when I realized not everyone called him … Read More
Hubba-hubba, Gratitude – Lookin’ Good!
November 25, 2019
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Sarah B
I knew a woman who did all the gratitude practices – the journals and songs and dinnertime rituals with the kids and more – who seemed basically miserable to me. … Read More
Certainty and the Meanest Gremlin Gabbing
October 26, 2019
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Sarah B
The whole gremlin thing, it’s a way of bringing some levity and accessibility to a really challenging part of ourselves. I realized, as I stood before groups of students at … Read More
Shaping Your Professional Memoir: My #1 LinkedIn Tip
July 7, 2019
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Sarah B
LinkedIn. It’s the less sexy cousin of, well, all the other big-name social media sites. While all the big drama and shiny pictures are filling feeds elsewhere, posts on LinkedIn … Read More
The Stoned Writer: When Fear Inhibits Creation
January 28, 2019
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Sarah B
I have a friend with a book idea he’s been noodling on for the last few years. It’s a memoir of sorts, focused on his journey from being raised in … Read More
A Few Bears and a Few Thousand Stitches
January 7, 2019
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Sarah B
I lived in rural Floyd County, Virginia, for nine years. Living rurally means frequent deer encounters, groundhogs living under outbuildings, and not-infrequent gifts of mice and moles left by the … Read More