My friend text me the other day and asked me how my now husband and I met and what it took for us to build our lives together. He was just looking for some honest advice from two far from perfect people. He had recently decided he was ready to make space for a serious… Read More Dating: Throw All the Damned Rules Away.
This is the final installment of a three part series about the unexpected places where we can find joy. Missed the first two posts? You can click here and here to get caught up! I have probably wasted a good hour in avoidance of this blog post. (Since writing that line, I have wasted another… Read More There is Joy in Discipline
This is part two of a three part series about finding joy in unexpected places. Haven’t read the first installment of the series? You can find it here. Don’t let the title of this one fool you. A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to tell my boss I was not returning to… Read More There’s Joy in the Unknown
This is part one of a three part series about the unexpected places in which we can find joy…when we are actively looking. I’ve realized two things in the last three months: If I can’t be honest with myself, I can’t write anything to you. I have no problem talking to you about my struggles… Read More There’s Joy in the Struggle
Happy New Year, sweetest friends! I hope the last quarter of 2018 treated you well and that however you are walking into this new year, you realize the vastness of your potential and the opportunities that are waiting for you. The last quarter of 2018 came with many unexpected changes that I was in no… Read More 2019: The Year of Enough
The other day I was sitting with one of my favorite co-workers. We work really well together and she’s one of those people who you can have three different conversations with at one time. Somehow we were talking both about how to teach kids this upcoming skill and how our marriages were going. The conversation… Read More Romantic Love vs. Committed Love: Why You Need Both
When I started this one, it was supposed to be for single ladies. But the more I wrote–the more I realized it was for all the ladies. So as a follow up to The Single Ladies Series, I am reminding me and you (yo’ mama and yo’ cousin too) to never top exploring our potential.… Read More Exploring Your Potential
Nicole recently posed a question on Instagram asking followers what questions they would like insight into from a man’s perspective. A question that was asked a few times was, “Why does a man suddenly disappear or become less interested in a woman that he was actively pursuing?” She asked her husband, me (if you didn’t… Read More Sing Ladies Part 3: A Few Reasons Why That Guy You Liked Ghosted You…
So we’re back this week with another installment of the Single Ladies series. Two weeks ago, we started thinking about how the way we live when we aren’t dating impacts the caliber of man we will tolerate when we start. Didn’t read that one? Girl. It was good. Go ahead and open it up and… Read More Single Ladies Part 2: How to Date Without Losing Your Mind
I’m interrupting our regularly scheduled program this week to bring you my game plan to kick grief’s ass for the next 21 days. But before we start talking about the why and the how I want to tell you what this is not. This is not my know-it-all attempt to tell you how to manage… Read More How I’m Kicking Grief’s Ass.
