In light of my upcoming 31st birthday, I've been thinking a lot about people and how we become the way we are. Some people know they're born for certain things and/or are certain about who they are early. I am not one of those people. Sure, I've always had quirky things about me that I was proud of, but I never really thought of them as the things that define me. I was listening to a podcast that featured Chris Brogan this week and in it he mentioned a quote from Sally Hogshead made during her keynote at the Authority Rainmaker conference: "Don't change who you are, become more of who you are." Revel in the things that make you, you. For the last few years, I had "aspiring domestic goddess" written in my online bio. I think I wrote it shortly after Pinterest exploded and I …
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Goodbye to This House
This isn't any old house. This is the house of my childhood. The only constant that I've ever known in my almost-31 years. I've lived in a handful of houses over the years and haven't missed a single one. Even getting there was an adventure. At that time, highway 77 in Charlotte wasn't nearly as traveled as it is now. As we headed down the highway, I'd get more and more excited as we reached her exit. Exit 33. A marker I always looked for as a child to let me know that big breakfasts, swimming, fishing, and fun were minutes away. There were other mile markers. The ostrich farm. A giant tree at a fork in the road where we veered left to continue on to the house. My Grandaddy told us that George Washington slept under that tree. A few years ago it was cut down, but I can see it plain …
25 Things, Revisited
I recently stumbled across one of those "write-about-yourself" memes that were going around during the years of MySpace and the first few years of Facebook. This one was from January of 2009, just four months after Oscar and I were married. Newlyweds, pre-kids, one dog, two cats. It's so funny how much has changed and yet, how much stays the same. The instructions went like this: once you were tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about yourself and at the end, choose 25 people to tag to learn more about them. Here are my original answers from 2009 along with a few added "things." 1. I hate paging people over the intercom at work. I feel stupid doing it. Thankfully, I don't have to do this anymore, but I don't think I'd feel silly if I …