by Lisa-Jo | Apr 24, 2014 | (in)courage, (in)RL, Five Minute Friday
There are women who hold my heart. Because they hold it tenderly. They hold it like a treasure. They hold it with lots of trust wrapped up like so much fine, pink tissue paper. Today we are all telling our stories about what it feels like to trust a friend. And not...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 5, 2014 | (in)courage
What if you were kind to yourself today? What if you looked in the mirror and smiled. Instead of counted gray hairs and wrinkles. What if you didn’t step onto the scale. What if instead you stepped into the middle of your floor and spun fast and loud to the...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 13, 2014 | (in)courage, (in)RL
We had a very challenging year with one of my kids last year. And by “challenging” I mean that I spent many parts of last year wanting to quit. And crying. And trying really, really hard to remember that I was the parent and that it wasn’t OK to...
by Lisa-Jo | Oct 23, 2013 | (in)courage, (in)RL, Girlfriends
I’m sharing about friendship over here today… About how when we keep showing up in the small things and when you add them up over a lifetime they are the big, world changing things that can happen in one neighborhood between two streets. I’m sharing...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 12, 2013 | (in)courage, Girlfriends
I work full time. At a job I love. And in this particular season I get to do that work from home. Four years ago my husband asked me, “If you could do any job, what would it be?” And I answered without missing a beat, “I want the job where I get to...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 25, 2013 | (in)courage, (in)RL, Cheering for you, Girlfriends
This is for the hurt women. The wish-they-had-sisters women. The why-wasn’t-I-invited women. This is for the girlfriends and heart friends and long distance friends and miss-my-friends friends. This is for the women who love long afternoons catching up and slow...
