Two things I have been getting right lately are that I’ve been meditating each morning and I’ve started Zentangling. Whatsy-tangling, you ask? Zentangling. I first heard about it sometime last year, when my friend Kristina posted some of her drawings online and mentioned that she had been doing it to relieve stress. I was immediately jealous that […]
Read More Sunday Funday Post: ZentangleThis throwback is true heart-warmer for me. There is no date on the paper so I don’t know exactly when it is from, or even why it was written in the first place. I have had it for a long time, tucked away in a box entitled “A Few of my Favorite Things”. I vaguely remember […]
Read More Throwback Thursday: In My Heart Deeply Berred…Happy New Year! I’ve been away from WordPress for a couple of weeks now due to all the holiday fun that was going on, but now it’s a quiet, work-free afternoon and so I cannot delay posting any longer. My holidays were quite lovely and I hope yours were too. I always enjoy spending time […]
Read More Happy 2015 from EEC Chick!I mentioned a couple of whiles ago that I was going to join Toastmasters again. I’ve been going for about two months now and last Monday I did my first speech, which is known as The Ice Breaker. The objective of the speech is to introduce yourself to your audience and demonstrate what speaking skills […]
Read More Toastmasters Ice Breaker SpeechHere is the third and final section of my autobiography (written at 16). See part 1 for the project scope. Adolescence I started middle school in September 1991, scared out of my mind. It wasn’t half as bad as I imagined. Sixth grade was interesting. I did a science project with two tiny turtles and […]
Read More Throwback Thursday – Autobiography Part 3Hi there! So I was going through some of my journals looking for future Throwback Thursday posts (because it’s easier than creating new content) and I came across this one from just two years ago. I hope it gives you a chuckle. Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Well, today confirmed what I’d always suspected was true: […]
Read More Throwback Thursday – Bonus Edition!Last week I began typing up the autobiography I wrote for my 11th grade developmental psychology class. If you’d like to start at the beginning, check that post out first. This is part 2 of 3. Childhood In first grade I had an awesome teacher named Mrs. Bush. She was the best teacher I’ve ever had. As […]
Read More Throwback Thursday – Autobiography Part 2In my junior year of high school I took a developmental psychology class and loved it. One of the projects in the class was to compose an autobiography and pay attention to the stages of development throughout our lives. So here is what I wrote, with a few edits for brevity and privacy. Even with […]
Read More Throwback Thursday – Autobiography of a 16 Year Old MeHappy Thanksgiving!! I hope all of you reading this are having a lovely day with the people you care about most. Here’s a little flashback to 1991, when we lived in PA and always had a bunch of people over for Thanksgiving dinners. But I didn’t really describe much of that here. What was I […]
Read More Throwback Thursday – Thanksgiving 1991This past week a couple of things happened at work which got me thinking about something I need to change. I’m a bit of a people-pleaser. Ever since I can remember, I would do things to ensure that people would like me. I mean beyond the normal, “let me do something nice for this person because […]
Read More Confessions of a “Nice” Girl
Uncommon Heather 