It's hard to believe that I have been writing for All Things Girl since 2007. My how time flies. As a regular columnist, I have barely missed an issue (apologies to my editor, Deb Smouse, for the few I have missed). All Things Girl is an online magazine that hosts an international choir of women's voices: writers, artists, etc. The talent featured is rich; articles and features ...
Walking down the street, wearing your favorite green high-tops and a black and white striped sweater over slim jeans (you could be a guy or a gal), you pass a homeless person, a few small birds pecking at some seeds on the sidewalk, and a rosebush pushing against a fence, pale pink buds threatening to burst open. You see none of this. Vaguely aware that you did pass the homeless person (he asked you for spare change), but you couldn’t pick ...
I just completed week one of a four-week program called the Morning Whip with the amazing and talented Erika Lyremark at the helm. Seriously, people, this is good stuff. Mega-motivating, and Erika has a loving, yet no-holds-barred way of coaxing accountability out of even the most reluctant business babe. One of the assignments she gave us was to write a Text Message to the Universe asking the universe for help getting un-stuck in whatever area(s) of business we need a little extra oomph and ...
Shop until you drop (further into debt). shanna trenholm That joyful season is upon us again; the one that seems to come around every year about this time. The season, where rampant consumerism disguised as a time to show others how we feel about them through a transactional exchange of material goods, otherwise known as Christmas. Now I'm not going to get all preachy about the real reason for the season, because if I did I’d tell you about the early Roman and Pagan origins ...
Hello there! Yes, you, right there. Tap, tap, yes, you on the other side of the screen. What’s wrong, cupcake? You seem to be a bit upset. Or maybe frustrated—or perhaps you are feeling the dreaded O-word…overwhelmed. You see, I can tell, because when you are overwhelmed or frustrated, or you know, just plain maxed out, you start to complain a bit. Ok, more than a bit—a lot. And if you have been reading me for a while you know that I want you to be and ...
I like words. You have probably guessed this if you have read any of my posts, articles, or poetry floating around the interwebs (and on the two-dimensional page). I like words so much that I have built my livelihood around assembling them into strands with other words, more commonly known as sentences. Then I take those sentences and weave them together to make more or less coherent paragraphs and so on. The possibilities are endless. As a word lover I spend a fair amount of time, maybe too much ...
Of all the popular –ists and –isms, minimalism is one that inspires much debate. A hot topic du jour, minimalism was popularized, in large part by Leo Babauta’s blog, Zen Habits. While I love Leo and most everything he writes, and have embraced much of the principles of minimalism, I have grown weary of the term. It’s lost its meaning and original intention—that of downsizing, ridding ourselves of possessions and things that clutter our lives, streamlining, ideally, to increase happiness and clarity around what is truly important and ...