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Love: Books About Travel

One of the best parts of summer is vacation. Whether for a long weekend or a whole week, there is nothing that compares with taking time off. The only thing that makes a vacation better, is if you have the chance to getaway. Whether to the beach, a new city, or some faraway land, there is something about traveling that helps us unplug from our lives. It gives our brains a break, and offers us a new perspective on life and the world. To me, traveling is the best. But, it isn’t every summer that we can getaway. Sometimes it [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:08:11+00:00August 3rd, 2017|Categories: Good Books, Love, Love Learn Lead, Travel|Comments Off

Courage After Failure

Two weeks before I moved into college, I was in my first car accident. That night had been like any summer evening for a teenager living in a small town. There was nothing to do. So, I decided to take my younger sisters to get ice cream. My parents let me have the car, and for a reason I don’t remember, we headed to the grocery store instead of the Friendly’s down the street. At the store we picked out a half gallon of rocky road and a few bottles of soda. We checked out, then my sisters and I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:09:39+00:00July 31st, 2017|Categories: Courage, Failure, Fear, Success|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead July 27, 2017

Its seems like yesterday, we were closing out June. But here we are, almost to August. The summer, as usual, is going by too quickly. Here in Pennsylvania, we’re trying to get outside as much as we can when the humidity isn’t bad, and we’re living on smoothies made out of the fresh local fruit we’ve picked. Wherever you are, I hope you are finding moments to rest as well as seizing opportunities for adventure and fun, as they come along. For today’s Love, Learn, Lead, I share some of my favorite bread recipes, a brave quote from Brene Brown, [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:11:25+00:00July 27th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success|Comments Off

Don’t Worry, That’s Normal

Have you ever watched a professional make pizza? They start by tossing a smooth ball of dough in the air. Then with the back of their hands, they slowly and rhythmically stretch it out into an almost perfectly round pizza crust. They make it look so easy. For some reason, when I began making bread from scratch, that pizza dough is what I envisioned, yet it did not become my reality. Early on, my goal in baking bread was to make something healthy we could use for sandwiches. So Tony surprised me with a cookbook that would teach me how [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:13:05+00:00July 24th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, perseverance, Success|Comments Off

Learn: How to Recover From Your Vacation

About a month ago, my best friend and I each went away on different trips. Neither were overly adventurous, but nor were they super restful either. Then three days after we returned, we checked in over text. We were both exhausted. Our bodies were detoxing from eating food that we don’t normally eat, and we were finding it hard to readjust back to our normal lives. Through our conversation, I was reminded, that though it seems completely opposite of how things should be, sometimes: We really need a vacation after our vacation. Whether we’ve spent a whole week at a [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:14:26+00:00July 20th, 2017|Categories: Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success|Comments Off

Say Yes (to adventure)

Our canoe made a soft scraping sound against the sand as we arrived on the shore of our next portage. Quickly, we jumped out and lifted the canoe slightly, to drag it further onto shore. We attached our paddles to the inside, and then began to unload. Tony helped me lift my first pack onto my back. His brother, Mike, and our sister-in-law, Wendy, had arrived a few minutes before us. We could see Wendy was already loaded up, and heading down the trail. I grabbed a bucket and a folding table, and followed her. We were in the Boundary [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:16:16+00:00July 17th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, perseverance|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead July 13, 2017

Somehow we’ve made it to blueberry season here in Pennsylvania. This means that on the Saturday’s we are free, we are getting up early and picking as many delicious berries as it takes to fill our buckets. There is just nothing like fresh blueberries. I hope that wherever you are, you too are eating blueberries—or at least enjoying all that summer in your town has to offer. Today, we are continuing our courage theme with a book that I loved, something I learned by sticking around when things were hard, and a great leadership quote. May you be blessed this [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:17:48+00:00July 13th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Good Books, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

The Courage to Stay

“We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing, and even ecstasy, but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting where we are, not where we wish we were.” —Kathleen Norris, Quotidian Mysteries Back when things were really bad, when I felt suffocated by all that my life was and all that it wasn’t, I made a plan to escape. I packed my bags and boarded a plane that took me to the other side of the country, where my aunt and friends welcomed me with open arms. I interviewed at a grad school there—because nothing [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:19:52+00:00July 10th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Health, perseverance|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead July 6, 2017

I am not sure what happened to June, but we are already closing out our first week in July! If you are living in the States, I hope you had a wonderful Fourth. And wherever you are, that your summer so far is going at a lovely, easy pace. This month on the blog we’ll be talking about courage from a few different angles—some fun, some serious. I don’t know about you, but there have been many times in my life where I’ve wished I had a little more courage, and a lot less fear. Though it may seem to [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:21:30+00:00July 6th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

5 Things I’m doing this summer that I think You should do too!

Do you remember summertime as a kid? You know, before we got jobs or our license? On hot afternoons, we’d eat cherry red popsicles that would melt and drip down our hands and arms. We’d hang out with our friends at the beach or the pool, almost every day. We’d play tag or softball with the neighbors until it got dark and our moms made us come inside. And the sound of the ice-cream truck would send us running. Summertime, as a kid was the best. But now, we’re adults. We have jobs and schedules that at times make it [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:23:19+00:00July 3rd, 2017|Categories: Good Books, Health|Comments Off

About Melissa Schlies

Love: Books About Travel

Courage After Failure

Love Learn Lead July 27, 2017

Don’t Worry, That’s Normal

Learn: How to Recover From Your Vacation

Say Yes (to adventure)

Love Learn Lead July 13, 2017

The Courage to Stay

Love Learn Lead July 6, 2017

5 Things I’m doing this summer that I think You should do too!

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