It doesn’t matter what you wear
I love how my life has about five themes and that they get repeated oh so often because of my sometimes dense reception. From this week’s It doesn’t matter what you […]
The Kids are Alright Part 2
The semester is drawing to a close. This semester’s class has been really special; they have been earnest in their sharing, forthright about their challenges, thoughtful and funny. Every semester, […]
Want to host a Beautiful You Salon Party?
Last night I was in Durham, North Carolina for a Beautiful You Salon Party hosted by two wonderful women, Erin and Jessica. About 20 women gathered to talk about body […]
Random Bits
Oh, the bits… So, for the longest time, it has been on between Happy and the above metal goat. We have a menagerie of metal animals in our side yard […]
a visual journal continued…
December and January are full of days to celebrate for our family. In addition to Christmas and New Year’s, we also celebrate the day we legally adopted […]
A Visual Journal
It was an action-packed weekend and I am out of words so I thought that I’d do a visual journal of the weekend. I imagine that there were Welcome Winter […]
How I Got Published
Caitlin Boyle, author of Operation Beautiful, has a great post up on her Healthy Tipping Point blog called How I Got Published. It features several different publishing stories including a […]
Random Bits
Bit # 1 So, one of Happy’s best buds is his cousin Uh-oh. Uh-oh and Happy doing their cousin thing. We call her Uh-oh because she’s not afraid to bring […]
Read the book, don’t drive fast, and other advice
Yesterday’s blog post provoked some great additional advice for young women (and men, really) from readers. Here it is and feel free to add to it! No matter how fun […]
18 ways to love the new family or family member in your life
This post was originally up in March 2009. * Wondering what’s up with the sign? See # 5. So there’s a new family- or family member- in your life, and you […]