blogging

Wisdom

12.10.10

I spent a lot of time this year planning for change. Change can’t always be made cold turkey. (Another wise decision I’ve adopted.) Changes need to be held in your pocket, turned over and over, looked at in every which way, and set upon various shelves of your life to see where they fit best.

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Community 2010: Online, IRL

12.7.10

I’d say I broke even in the community department for 2010. I built my personal, in-real-life community. I’ve made new friends, deepened friendships, and reached out to friends from my past. But my online community is sorely lacking.

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Today

12.6.10

Living with a “should have” mentality makes you a prisoner of the past. Life is much more enjoyable and productive when you move forward. Act, don’t react. Do what you can now and let go of what you should have done yesterday.

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My Tribes

10.8.10

The SITS Girls are at it again with another excellent community-building event. They have set up several “Tribes” of bloggers, grouped by interest and are posting daily activities to help us all strengthen our communities and find new blogs to read.

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Stepping Back

6.5.10

My number one goal right now is to be a better role model for my kids. Part of that means being a better me, and part of it means letting go of some things that simply didn’t add much to any of our lives. So the blogging mojo? I actually feel it coming back now that I’ve let go of the pressure on myself. For the time being, I think I just might have found the elusive balance.

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Growing As a Parent: Revisit the Past

4.3.10

Last week, I went through my old blog, PHAT Mommy, and pulled out the posts I wanted to import into this blog. I wanted to choose the most important posts that told the story of my life over my past 5 years of blogging. What I thought would be blog maintenance “busy work” turned out to be a very enlightening experience.

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Oops, I Did It Again

3.8.10

This is my new home. Join me. Because I love this place. Because blogging is powerful and inspiring and helps us connect and grow. And because I need you all — family, real-life friends, online friends — to support me, as I hope to support you, on the journey to “mom-improvement.”

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Four Reasons I Got Teary-Eyed at Blissdom

2.9.10

This past weekend I was in Nashville for the Blissdom blogging conference and my trip was full of emotional ups and downs. Here are four reasons why I got weepy at Blissdom.

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Zen In Ten

1.2.10

It’s all about focus for me this year. No more plowing along, deepening the rut I’ve been in. If there’s one thing this year has taught me, corny as it may sound, it’s that everything in your life can change in an instant. Make the most of now.

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Blogolution

6.2.08

I can’t believe it’s been an entire month since I’ve posted. Let me share with you the three main reasons for my lack of internet participation.

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