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Learn: What 2017 Taught Me

Since I was a teenager writing in my well-worn journals, I’ve always felt it’s important to look at what has been, before we move on to what’s ahead. I feel this is especially true in the New Year. In the past, on many December 31st’s, I have literally made lists of all the big things that have happened in the year. I have taken the time to be grateful, grieve, and most importantly, think about what I’ve learned in hopes of being better in the New Year. In this spirit, before truly beginning 2018, today I am sharing things I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-17T01:38:09+00:00January 1st, 2018|Categories: Faith, Health, Routines, Travel|Comments Off

What To Do With All Those Leftover (Feeling)s

If you’re one of those people who love Thanksgiving food (turkey, mashed potatoes, pie, etc.), then you know one of the best parts of the holiday is the leftovers. Some of my favorite memories of Thanksgiving involve eating pie for dinner, or making late night turkey sandwiches because everyone’s still up. Not to mention, eating roasted veggies with fried eggs for breakfast. Add a cup of coffee, and that’s what I call a good morning. Thanksgiving leftovers are the best—at least when we’re talking about food. But in my experience, food hasn’t always been the only leftover from the holiday. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:32:15+00:00November 27th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Fear, Food, Health, Mental Health, Uncategorized|Comments Off

When We’re The Answer

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 It’s a truth I stumbled upon by accident. One I said yes to without even knowing it was being offered. It is a truth I believe we need to speak about. And a truth that our world needs us badly to act upon. The truth is this: Sometimes, we’re the answer. In those times when we wish our phone would beep with a text from a friend or even a distant relative—anyone—to tell us we’re loved. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T00:53:54+00:00October 30th, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Health, Mental Health, Purpose|Comments Off

Learn: How to Build Healthy Routines

Whether we realize it or not, we build routines often. One day, a coworker happens to eat lunch at the same time we do, so we eat together. Then we eat together the next day. Before we know it, we are texting each other daily about when to meet for lunch. Or, we find a coffee shop on our way to work that makes the perfect latte. Soon, we are no longer making coffee at home. Instead, we are in line for our latte exactly ten minutes before we have to be at work—everyday. Sadly, we also create routines that [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:37:19+00:00September 28th, 2017|Categories: Balance, discipline, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Routines, Success|Comments Off

Laying Down & Picking Up

Growing up, I had the gift of spending a lot of time with my grandparents. One of the things we did most together was play games—namely, card games. Of course at first, it was Go Fish. Then as my sisters and I got older it became Rummy, Crazy eights, and Spades. I still remember my grandmother teaching me how to shuffle. But if there was anything all that time playing cards taught me, it was that it’s all about: What you lay down, and what you pick up. This is especially true in Rummy. If you’ve played it before, you [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:44:23+00:00September 18th, 2017|Categories: Balance, discipline, Health, Success|Comments Off

On Making a Good Cup of Coffee

I don’t know what kind of coffee drinker you are. I don’t know if you are the “get it on your way to work,” the “Starbucks barista knows my order,” or the “constantly using my Keurig” kind of coffee person. I don’t know if you take it cold brew, french press, Fair Trade, cream and sugar, black, latte or cappuccino. Or, if you’re even a coffee person at all (bare with me if you aren’t). But if you are, there is a good chance you will feel my pain over what I am about to tell you. For a while [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:48:27+00:00September 11th, 2017|Categories: Balance, discipline, Health, Success|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead September 7, 2017

Labor Day, and our last long weekend of summer, has passed. The packed days of fall are beckoning. There are new schedules, new opportunities, and perhaps even new changes happening in our lives. Though some things from previous seasons have ended, there are still responsibilities and roles that haven’t changed. And so early September becomes the time of year in which we are trying to juggle both the old and the new. We wonder to ourselves: Can we really do it all? But the answer varies depending on how much we’re trying to take on. And the solution is controversial [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T19:50:38+00:00September 7th, 2017|Categories: Balance, discipline, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success|Comments Off

Learn: How to Plan The Perfect Day Trip

It could be a case of wanderlust. Perhaps it is an unquenchable thirst for adventure. Or maybe it is that Tony and I have been in a season of trying to figure out our next phase of life for so long—that getting away for a vacation feels like a temporary reprieve. Whatever it is, travel is one of our favorite things to do. However, as you know, we can’t all be on a permanent vacation. Most of us have to work. That is why, for us, day trips are a close second to vacations. At least once a month, on [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:01:25+00:00August 17th, 2017|Categories: Balance, Health, Learn, Love Learn Lead, Travel|Comments Off

The Good Gardener Part 2

To read last week's part 1 of the Good Gardner click here. All of a sudden the park ranger started pointing out roses and California poppies—giving us a full tour of the garden. As He did, he talked about how much he loved it; how he would walk through it on his half hour lunch break every day, and how when things were quiet at the gate, he’d sneak tools out of the shed to tend to different plants. There was no question that this man was the garden’s greatest admirer and caretaker. But then, the admiration slipped from his [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:03:21+00:00August 14th, 2017|Categories: discipline, Faith, Health, Hope, Travel|Comments Off

The Good Gardener Part 1

As is true for most grand adventures, it is often what you find on the way to your destination that makes for the best stories, rather than the destination itself. At least, on our travels, that’s what we’ve found. And it was definitely true on the day we visited Mussenden Temple, in Northern Ireland. A cylindrical shaped building, on the edge of a very steep cliff that drops off to the ocean, Musseden Temple was once the library of a great Earl. When we decided to go to Northern Ireland, I found information about it online and thought it would [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:06:27+00:00August 7th, 2017|Categories: discipline, Faith, Health, Travel|Comments Off

Learn: What 2017 Taught Me

What To Do With All Those Leftover (Feeling)s

When We’re The Answer

Learn: How to Build Healthy Routines

Laying Down & Picking Up

On Making a Good Cup of Coffee

Love Learn Lead September 7, 2017

Learn: How to Plan The Perfect Day Trip

The Good Gardener Part 2

The Good Gardener Part 1

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