Category: Family

30 Sep, 2024   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

A Hard Working Love Story

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a sucker for a good love story. I love romantic comedies, happy endings and the cheesier you deem it, the more endearing I find it. I also, however, wish one bad break up on everyone because I believe that you need to go...

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4 Sep, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Live Like Dave

Seven years ago today life was thrown into perspective. Cancer took another victim and heaven gained another angel. The sweetest woman I’ve ever met and someone I’m lucky enough to call my friend Kim, lost her husband that morning. He was young, he was vibrant, he was optimistic, he was...

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13 Feb, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Iconic Irrelevance

No one ever wants to be irrelevant; imagine that feeling of being useless, not applicable, almost obsolete. Like the last kid picked in dodge ball. The one not called upon in class. The one whose resume always lands at the bottom of the pile. It’s never fun to feel unseen,...

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6 Dec, 2023   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

There’s No Place Like Home

We are three weeks out from Christmas and in my household that equals mayhem. Our youngest is up at 6am as she is just so excited to find our Elf that the sound of her scampering feet and little giggles mean that the entire household is up at 6am. Some...

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26 Apr, 2023   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Leaving a Legacy

Once upon a time I worked in the wonderful world of television and not just television but entertainment television. I say, “Once Upon A time” because it really was a fairytale.  It was a job I loved with people I loved and allowed me to travel the country listening to...

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15 Dec, 2022   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Dividing Our Time

We needed this. We needed this time to connect. To remind ourselves of why we said ‘I do’ in the first place. It wasn’t a week away on an island or a fancy dinner for two at the new ‘it’ restaurant, it was simply a few hours out on the...

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28 Feb, 2022   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters   •   Wellness And Self Care

Anxiety without Shame

Anxiety… that funny seven letter word that has been thrown about for the last two years and shunned by many as a negative personality trait and label to be worn as someone who is high stress and tied tight. But I laugh at that label; crumple it up and throw...

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27 Jan, 2022   •   Choose Joy   •   Family

Take Nothing For Granted

My heart is breaking today. This social distancing is so dang hard. I love people, I need people, I miss people. I get why we are doing it and I am following the protocols hardcore, but it weighs on the soul ya know?! Today we did a drive by visit...

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