When I was a kid, about 4-5 years old, I figured out you could die in your sleep. I was at my grandparents house and I was almost asleep when, for some unknown reason, I held my breath and I fully woke up with a start with the realization that you could die sleeping. I…Continue Reading “Grieving”
I’ve been having some digestive issues (more on that in a bit) and I went to the doctor last week to discuss it with him as well as to get a new migraine medicine. This was my first time seeing this particular doctor and I had no problem talking to him about my migraines and…Continue Reading “Things we don’t talk about”
For the month of September, I am focusing on relationships for my happiness project. This makes it the appropriate month to not only work on my relationships and think about them, but to address the elephant in the room – dating. If you know me well, you know that I don’t date much or really…Continue Reading “This Dating Life…or Lack Thereof”
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships recently as I struggle in my “new to me” small town. Honestly, it’s on my mind all the time. I think about what kind of friend am I, what do I value in a friend, and how do I make my friendships more meaningful? Apparently I’m not the…Continue Reading “Digging Deeper Into Friendships”
I am visiting my family in Ohio this week and I have had a very strong nostalgia feeling while I have been here. It started on the second day when I was sitting outside at my mom’s house and it was so quiet. I could here the crickets chirping and the horseshoes hitting their mark…Continue Reading “Nostalgia is a weird feeling”
I live in a small town, under 15,000 people small. Now I know there are smaller towns than this, but I came from Cincinnati with a population of slightly over 2 million. To me, it’s tiny. To give you perspective on how small I’ll tell you that I live in a house that was previously…Continue Reading “Surviving Small Town Life”
You’ve heard us mention the word “vulnerable” or “vulnerability” quite often in previous posts. And I’m sure you’ve heard about this concept before. But have you really dug in deep to find out what exactly it is? Or what it means to you personally? If your first inkling is to define it as weakness, you…Continue Reading “On Being Vulnerable”
In January 2016, a Toastmasters chapter was started at my company. I went to the initial meeting and while I was a little put off by all the clapping (I am used to it now), I liked the idea of having a positive place to get better at something that is nerve racking for me…Continue Reading “Riding the Wave”
As I was running this morning, I listened to the final episode of the second season of Malcom Gladwell’s podscast Revisionist History. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you should. Gladwell selects stories from history that have been over looked and he provides the listener with a different, enlightening perspective of the event. Not…Continue Reading “Preserving a Legacy”
As we jump into our blogging journey, we knew we needed to first determine what and who we are. What is important to us? What do we strive for? What will our legacy be? As we are both huge fans of Gretchen Rubin and her amazing podcast Happier, we decided we needed a manifesto. Gretchen…Continue Reading “Our Manifesto”