As always, I’m ending February with a look back at all the things that stood out for me this month. Here are some of my February highlights… It’s still true that I am happier when I am off of social media. I started the month back on FaceBook and Instagram after taking the month off. …
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February 2021 Reflections
As always, I'm ending February with a look back at all the things that stood out for me this month. Here are some of my February highlights... It's still true that I am happier when I am off of social media. I started the month back on FaceBook and Instagram after taking the month off. ...
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Re-Examining My Relationship with Social Media
I remember the day that I decided that I wanted to trade-in my Razr flip phone for a fancy looking computer-ish phone. I don't think I even knew to call it a Smartphone back then. Little did I know that I would enter into a decade long dance with this distracting little device that I can never seem ...
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What I’ve Been Reading Lately
I've had a really good reading month so far! I'm being much more selective about what I read this year, and I'm really relying on sources I trust (like MMD for example!) to guide my reading decisions. I've also significantly lowered my Goodreads reading goal for 2021 in an effort to give myself a ...
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My Morning Routine
I've been an early riser for as long as I can remember. I wake up at 5am on most mornings thanks to some internal clock that I can't seem to do anything about. When I was younger, I viewed this trait as a curse because it meant that I couldn't sleep-in no matter how late I stayed up the night ...
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
“I suspect that God’s plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit; and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some ...
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A Prayer for the Weekend
Father, guide me as I enter this weekend. Help me to lay my work aside so that I can be refreshed for the week that awaits me.Allow me moments of rest in between loads of laundry. Give me space to connect with my family through the ordinary moments of our Saturday and the slow rhythms of our ...
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What is Saving My Life Right Now
I'm joining Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs. Darcy to explore some of the things that are saving my life right now. I love this idea at this time of year--especially this year after we are long-weary of this pandemic and the seemingly unending wait for things to return to some semblance of normalcy. I ...
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January 2021 Reflections
When I look back over this month, I realize that it has been a hard one for me. An assault on our capitol, fear over threats of violence to our democratic institutions, a still-raging pandemic, uncertainties about new and more dangerous mutations of the virus, and a slower-than-anticipated vaccine ...
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A Social Media Fast
On New Year's Day, I found myself feeling out-of-sorts. I couldn't pinpoint exactly what the problem was, but there definitely was one. I was restless and apathetic. I was doing all the things that I normally do that bring me contentment, but nothing seemed to be working. My family could tell that ...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together…We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries ...
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