by fistbumpmedia | Jul 25, 2013 | Lifestyle
This evening I’m going to share part of someone else’s story, with her permission. First, though, a bit of backstory. Judy was a friend/older sister to me from when I was about 11 years old until I started college. I admired her zest for life, her...
by fistbumpmedia | Jul 19, 2013 | Intangibles, Lifestyle
My hometown in Southeast Missouri had a large community swimming pool when I was growing up, and each summer until my mom was convinced we could swim proficiently, my sister and I took swimming lessons. At the end of the short “leg” of the L-shaped pool...
by fistbumpmedia | Jul 14, 2013 | Lifestyle
Confession #1: Through my childhood and teen years, my room was a mess. I only made my bed if absolutely forced to, and any projects I was working on, books I was reading, and school stuff could almost always be found laying around on my bed or desk or on the floor....
by fistbumpmedia | Jun 14, 2013 | Intangibles, Lifestyle
“A man’s home is his castle”, and “Home is where the heart is.” Just two of the hundreds of quotes that speak to the importance humans place on the idea of home. Libraries and book stores have hundreds of books on home improvement,...
by fistbumpmedia | Jun 12, 2013 | Lifestyle, Self-Care
As I studied what it meant to live authentically, I found (as I explained in my last post) that the key points I noted fell into one of four life categories: spiritual, physical, relational, and emotional. I decided to focus on physical authenticity first simply...
by fistbumpmedia | Jun 7, 2013 | Lifestyle
In mid 2011, I heard about an online scrapbooking class that involved choosing one word to focus on throughout the year and then scrapbooking about how that word in some way “played out” each month. Being passionate about words (which no doubt was either...
