Are We Loving Well?

I enter this bookstore cafe today, a place I have been a thousand times but today my heart cracks open.  Today, I see before me, the counter service of the cafe is now open.  For the first time in sixteen months, I sit here with my tea, sweet potato fries and a yellow writing tablet.…

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Worry Less, Live More

Sitting in the pew at church on a hot summer day, tears coming down my face,  I breathe in the sentiment… Worry less, live more, Steph. I take another deep breath, surrounded by my family as we honor the loss of my great aunt, Auntie Nell.  Nell was my grandmother’s sister.  Both of these amazing…

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Love is Everything

Love is Everything.  This is what has been on my mind since we last chatted. It has been a very long time since our last chat.; longer than I would have liked.  My attention has been on other things such as the topic of love.  It all began with seeing this movie in June when…

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Unfriend Your Friend

Friendship has been on my mind a lot lately.  I have been networking like a fiend to increase my social network and bring business in the door.  New friendships are forging at the same time that old friendships are shifting and falling away. The topic of unfriending came to mind last week when I was…

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Where Love Lies, Fear Has No Place

Where Love Lies, Fear Has No Place. The concept of fear and love have been on my mind A LOT lately. In our last chat It Is What It Is: The Art of Letting Go we talked about grief, loss, and the process of letting go.  I shared about my challenges in moving through grief of the…

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