On this day on Lake Michigan it was 55 & very windy. I was REALLY cold. My friend, M however was enjoying the warmth of the water. Which pretty much proves it...different can be good.

Yo yo yiggity yo!  I am back from my 6 wk. self-imposed blogging hiatus of sorts.  If I hadn’t taken that time I was going to implode with ALL the frustrations.  So.  How did it go? Let’s just say that first week was flipping ridick.  I had NO idea how addicted I was.  Once I deleted […]

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netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one. ~ In celebration of Black History Month… A picture is certainly worth a thousand words. What better way to celebrate Black History Month than by taking a moment to acknowledge the snapshots of time that represent the struggle and triumph of […]

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netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one. ~ The one that helped me want to snuggle R1 & R2 a little bit longer:  “It hit me in the darkness of his cluttered room that these days are numbered. Some night in the future, Little Dude will ask me […]

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netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one.   Are You Focusing On The Obstacle Or The Opportunity? by Michael Hyatt Perhaps if it had been us, we would have spent more time focusing on the problem—analyzing Goliath, digging deeper into the problem, and trying to understand the various […]

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netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one. What made me smile this week while my laptop burned a hole through my thighs.  For you, my fine Netizens of the interwebz… —-Do you want to be a successful parent, mompreneur or entrepreneur?  If so, read this great post from Get […]

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photo credit: me I believe every person should live life thoughtfully, being fully who you are, fully aware of your gifts and fully using them.  (Okay, I will not stuff the word ‘fully’ into any more sentences.  Scouts honor).  Here’s my top 10 ways that I keep myself inspired to go and get the life […]

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Have you ever noticed that WE are the new media? We bloggers, we facebook-users, we Twitter-tweeters? We Pinterest-pinners?  We tumbling-tumblrs?  Any one can slap some words on an image, post it to facebook, pin it on pinterest and all of a sudden it’s “truth.”  In fact, Tumblr was made by this: the ability to easily […]

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In the past few months I’ve told you how I’m a chunk monster, how Pinterest inspired me to lose weight, how my first real work out in a over a year made me feel like a god among ALL women and how I’m an un-tameable sexy beast now that I’ve done a total of six work […]

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