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Relationships

On Cultivating Heart Strings

September 17, 2011
incouragegirls

THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL about real life.
It’s not just the laughter you can see instead of just hear (or read).It’s not the twinkle in a friend’s eye.
It’s more than the touch or the hug or the wiping away of tears.
It’s that we were created for it.To mingle our spirits togetherand with Him.
To be fully full [...]

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On Writing For Community

August 5, 2011

Right now the Blogher conference is going on – in case you aren’t familiar, it is the biggest women’s blogging conference of the year. I started attending in 2008 and have been to every one since – except for this year. This year I’m too pregnant to travel, a reason I’m thinking is the best [...]

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The Old You

August 3, 2010
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Did you know?
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Baby it doesn’t have to be this way.
You don’t have to hurt.
You don’t have to see only dark
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I miss you, the real you.
The old you.
The one who was real and free and here.
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I watch you sleep
I can’t wake you up.
Only you can come over to this side of reality.
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Come join me in the [...]

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Beauty Is As Beauty Does

March 23, 2010
Line in the sand

These women inspire me to draw a line in the sand, step over it into beauty, and never look back at the ugly.
Casey pulls on our perceptions, shows us how our culture is so very very VERY far from reality of what beauty is.  Don’t miss her lovely display of photos of [...]

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A Sister Party

October 22, 2009
picking desserts

I tape up a box, fill it carefully, thinking on each item quietly but quickly, and tape the box closed and move on to the next.  These things I’m doing now, I was doing this time three years ago, to move to the place we are now leaving.  Another move, but this journey — as [...]

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On Finding Your Heart Strings

October 1, 2009
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Last weekend was spent doing many things…traveling to North Carolina for the first time, seeing beloved online friends I rarely see, and wandering around Type A Mom conference as a bit of a loner (and liking it that way).
I went to this conference as a speaker, but also a bit on my own.  I like [...]

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More Than A Decade

June 6, 2009
segermanfamily

Today is our wedding anniversary, and 11 years, 7 moves, 3 children, 2 cats, 1 dog and a million moments later, we’re still in love.
Still saying “I’m glad I married you”.
Still laughing and crying and stressing and relaxing. Together. On the inside of the wedding ring, it still says “one of two”. [...]

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5 Ways To Step Outside The MommyBlogger Box

November 10, 2008

Nearly every day I am asked by mom bloggers how to do more with their blog.  “How can I make money, be invited to events, and get on the “inside”?  How can I do what you do?“ The answer is that it’s not easy, but it is simple. It involves work, it involves putting yourself [...]

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Weekly Twitterings: My Favorite Tweets

August 6, 2008

Here is this week’s installment of My Favorite Tweets, and be sure to not miss the inaugural Weekly Twitterings post.  I have so much fun going through and picking these, I hope you enjoy them as well.  You can follow me on Twitter to catch all the action in real time.

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