Love Learn Lead January 4, 2018

Ok, I admit it. I did it. When writing the date for today’s post, I typed 2017. It is going to take a few times of writing dates down to solidify in my mind that it is indeed 2018. But here we are, having entered another year. This past Monday, Tony and I left the frozen tundra that is Wisconsin, where we were visiting family, and are now back at home in Pennsylvania. Though where we live has yet to fully feel like home, we are eternally grateful the winters here are a little milder than where we grew up. [...]

By |2018-07-17T01:36:44+00:00January 4th, 2018|Categories: Balance, Change, Food, Good Books, Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead January 4, 2018

Things I Loved 2017

Every now and then, we hear stories about communities digging up old time capsules from fifty or even hundreds of years before. And I am always interested in learning what they’ve found. Like a couple of years ago, they dug up a time capsule in Boston that was buried in 1795 by Paul Revere and Sam Adams. Inside they found coins, a few newspapers and a Massachusetts commonwealth seal. This was what they wanted the people of the future to know about them. This was how they told us what was important in 1795. These stories always make me wonder [...]

By |2018-07-17T23:51:55+00:00December 28th, 2017|Categories: Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Things I Loved 2017

Love Learn Lead December 21, 2017

The countdown to Christmas is dwindling. In a few days Tony and I will get on a plane and head to the cold, northern shores of Lake Michigan to see our family in Wisconsin. There we will be greeted by one of the greatest gaggles of nieces and nephews ever. Every one of them will have grown way too much over the past year, which will make us feel both old and sad that we live so far away. But it will also make us savor our time with them all the more. As we prepare for the Christmas weekend [...]

By |2018-07-17T23:56:12+00:00December 21st, 2017|Categories: Christmas, Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead December 21, 2017

Love: My Favorite Books from 2017

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye I totally relate to what Salinger is saying in these words. Every now and then, I read a book and it feels like I have begun an incredible conversation with the author. Only, with the last page, not knowing the writer, the conversation ends. It [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:22:58+00:00December 14th, 2017|Categories: Freedom, Good Books, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success, Travel|Comments Off on Love: My Favorite Books from 2017

Love Learn Lead December 7, 2017

Happy Thursday! This past weekend, Tony and I went to a Christmas Tree farm with our closest friends, to cut down our tree. It has become a great tradition over the past few years. One that usually entails all the guys going ahead to scope out the best tree, while us girls slowly walk behind, shoving our hands in our pockets to keep warm, and talking about our favorite TV shows or catching up on the week. The guys find the trees, we give our approval, and then they are cut down and strapped to our cars. There is something [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:27:12+00:00December 7th, 2017|Categories: Christmas, Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead December 7, 2017

Love Learn Lead November 30, 2017

As usual, I am marveling at how fast another year is going by, and that we have already entered, as the song says, the most wonderful time of the year. Tony and I have started thinking about gift shopping for our long list of nieces and nephews that grew by two this year. And, as we live far from family, we’re figuring out how best to spend time with our loved ones. In hopes of starting our season off right, today I share some Christmas music I love, something that has helped me enjoy the Holidays more, and an old [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:30:36+00:00November 30th, 2017|Categories: Balance, Christmas, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead November 30, 2017

Love & Thankfulness

“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little…I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.” ― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way Every now and then, on Thanksgiving, I find myself eating at a table with people I love, when all of a sudden the host asks us to go around and share what we’re thankful for. Often, other than the usual yet true response—“my family”—my mind goes [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:41:47+00:00November 23rd, 2017|Categories: Food, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love & Thankfulness

Learn: When Celebrating is Courageous

It’s November. Thanksgiving will soon be here. But have you ever thought about how interesting the timing of this holiday is? Growing up near Plymouth—the actual place of the first Thanksgiving feast—as kids, we learned a lot about the Pilgrims. We learned about why they left England (and Holland) to come to the New World. And how when they landed on the shores of their new home, winter was fast approaching. They didn’t have time to plant crops, let alone to reap a harvest. Food was scarce. That first winter, people died. Those who made it to spring, made friends [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:44:24+00:00November 16th, 2017|Categories: Faith, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Learn: When Celebrating is Courageous

Love Learn Lead November 9, 2017

We’re not even to the middle of November, and yet the Christmas Creep is well underway. Music and displays in stores are already trying to get us to start our gift shopping, when I just want to hold on to the sunny days of fall a little bit longer. So for this reason, no more mention of Christmas. For today’s Love Learn Lead, I am sharing a recipe I love, a few books that have helped me learn an important lesson about life, and a crucial leadership tip to consider this season. Enjoy! Love One of the things I love [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:47:52+00:00November 9th, 2017|Categories: Food, Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead November 9, 2017

Love Learn Lead November 2, 2017

Have I mentioned, I love fall? There is something about the leaves changing color, and the weather getting cooler that seems to bring out my inner Martha Stewart (that I didn’t even know I had). All of a sudden, I want to light candles, bake pumpkin bread, and knit—all while drinking my favorite fall flavored latte! Fall is fabulous. But as much as it also makes me want to hike among the red and yellow trees, there is work for all of us to do. There’s our jobs, our responsibilities, and for some of us—there  are changes we are anticipating [...]

By |2018-07-18T00:51:50+00:00November 2nd, 2017|Categories: Change, Courage, Food, Good Books, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead November 2, 2017

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