I boarded the bus at 6:05am. Pitch black. In the dead middle of a Utah winter. My life had just changed drastically. Granted, it was a change I wanted with all my heart, but that doesn't make the reality of an adjustment magically disappear. I was taking the semester off of school, to do an …
Moving, Looking, Trying: On Finding Passion
I'm beginning to recognize the expression. I see their brows bend together and their shoulders recede almost imperceptibly. I watch as the corner of their lips pulls downward ever so slightly. I talk to women all the time who haven't found their passion. It often starts with a few casual (or …
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13 ways in which I do not have it together
Recently a friend of mine told me that I seem in person just like I seem on the blog—purposeful. Together. Within seconds I was spouting off all the things I am NOT excelling at right now, and I thought it only made sense to share them here! I have lost track of the last time I bathed the …
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Let’s Talk about Fighting
He was looking down at the ipad when he said it. A nonchalant "Just don't talk about it." I don't think he even looked up. We were on a long drive—Ryan and I in the front of the minivan with our three kids strapped in behind us in the middle row. Trenton had a front row seat to our argument. And …
How Productive Are Stay-at-Home Moms?
It came at the bottom of an email. One well-intended parting line that—I'm guessing—would make mothers everywhere cringe. I had emailed her in relation to another venture I'm pursuing. And even though I manage my apartment building, write a blog, and am starting another website, I still introduced …
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A Parable: The Giver and the Taker
There are two of you doing this dance. This endless foxtrot of arranging who's taking the kids to school, waiting to see who will take out the trash first, and playing rock-paper-scissors to see who will do the bedtime routine that night. It is not exactly the romantic dance you imagined as a …
