Genealogy Jen updates

I’m excited about Rootstech Genealogy conference.  More excited than this picture of me Christmas morning when I found a gift certificate for tennis lessons in my stocking. (I wanted to be able to play tennis as well as Allen Renfroe, my 7th grade summer crush....
Food Police and Fondue

Food Police and Fondue

Wow.  That’s a lot of junk food you’ve got there. I turned and smiled at the guy behind me in line eyeing the contents of my grocery cart as I set items on the conveyor belt to check out.  “Yes it is, but it’s New Year’s Eve.  It’s...
5 Tips to keep your New Year’s Resolutions

5 Tips to keep your New Year’s Resolutions

I look forward to greeting the New Year and setting goals for myself.  I love goal setting (and reaching them is even better.) Here are my 5 best tips to keep your New Year’s Resolutions for 2018. 5. Don’t just think it, ink it. – Write your goal...
I love Jesus, but I hate Christmas

I love Jesus, but I hate Christmas

I’ve been trying to figure out what triggered it.  I remember looking forward to Christmas as a child.  But now, I love Jesus, but I hate Christmas. I don’t know if it was years of working holidays in retail managing stores for Starbucks.  I worked twice...
Day one

Day one

As habitual quitter, you know that it’s not day one the that’s hard. It’s the next day, and the day after, and the rest of the days that you are trying to change. You know, because you have had a lot of day ones.

Letter to Jen November 2004

Letter to Jen November 2004

Day after Thanksgiving 2004

Dear Jen,

You’ve spent today realizing the guy you brought to Thanksgiving dinner with the family isn’t “the one”. Your gut will be an electric mixer as you end it over a phone call at 2 pm. You’ve had a rough year, and (spoiler alert) it will get worse.

The Freedom in Being Fired

The Freedom in Being Fired

It was the most important thing my supervisor told me when I was fired, because it was true, and nearly two decades later, it’s still true.

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