As my Bible study finishes our current study (Lysa Terkeurst’s Finding I Am), and we begin to search for the next soul filling, life altering, eye opening study, what we have found is as follows: “Is your life too busy? Are you having difficulties finding margin in your life to even do your laundry? Join Sarah […]
I once ruined a friendship because I thought it was my job to be didactic; my friend was thinking about buying a house, and she was struggling with what kind of loan to take out, so I thought it was my job to educate her on what I knew about mortgages. But, it turned out […]
We live in a busy world. People have so many things going on all the time. If we can learn to communicate efficiently, then we will have more time for play, if we can learn to communicate effectively, then we will have less frivolous and confusing banter going back and forth, and if we can […]
A few years ago, some friends and I took a magical weekend getaway to the mountains. Truly, it was one for the books–we laughed, did a couple adventurous things, had campfires, ate the best of food, Britany threw up a gummy bear, and we all came back with some really great stories to share. We […]
10. Thou Shall Make Plans a Month Ahead of Time: Long gone are the days that you find yourself sitting at home without plans on a Friday night at 7 PM and can text your friends to spontaneously make plans to do something wild and fun and exciting. As an adult, your friends have work […]
I think I had written about the thousandth, “Sentence fragment!!!!” comment of my teaching career on a stack of papers I’d been grading when I sat back, folded my hands, and thought to myself, “How will these kids survive in the world if they can’t even follow directions?”… As a teacher, I think of my […]
The first step to gaining social membership into a group is to learn the lingo in which they speak; you don’t necessarily need to know WHAT that lingo means, but just that you can spit out the same words that the people do. It’s like, when I order my drink at Starbucks. If I can […]
I think we can all identify at least one person we’ve encountered who is an Eleanor Oliphant. To begin, an Eleanor Oliphant can be described as a person in which, from the outside world, is observed to be strange, socially awkward, forward, and quite unfashionable. No one really knows anything about them; they are that […]
As a T.V personality, Fred Rogers often became a person in which the nation looked to in order to gain wisdom and directions for how to live, how to accept self, and how to treat others (a real life Atticus Finch, right?!) In the documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, Morgan Neville focuses on Fred […]
10. Respond to your text messages all at once: Ok, so let’s talk about the process of responding to text messages. First, you have to grab your phone and unlock it (2 seconds). Then, you have to go to your messaging ap (1 second), click on the message (.5 seconds), read the message (2.5 seconds […]
