Oct 10, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
I have a new friend named Sebastian. He’s five. He also happens to be my neighbor. Sebastian and I see each other pretty regularly these days because he likes to roll down the hill in our front yard—an activity about which I have great enthusiasm. I mean,...
Sep 23, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
We’d spent months planning The Big Sale, months filled with meetings and spread sheets and check lists. It was the kind of event that required that level of planning; there were a thousand moving parts, each one dependent on the other. As the big day approached,...
Sep 22, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
Ellie Cole dances as she waits for the bus in her hometown of Eastleigh, England. Secretly videotaped by Jane Rowland, the youtube video went viral and landed Ellie a role in a play at The Point Theatre! (For the record, Ellie was actually listening to Knock Down by...
Sep 9, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
It popped up there in my Facebook feed, a status update so unassuming I could have scrolled right past it with hardly a nod. Except this was from my friend, Sara: mother of 5-year-old twin sisters Emily and Rachel; Facebook status-updater who never disappoints. (And...
Sep 2, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
I am a mountain girl. So it’s no surprise, really, that my soul settles every time I make my way from these South Carolina flatlands to the echoing peaks of the Appalachians. I need merely see those distant shapes through the windshield to feel their familiar...
Aug 21, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
I watched the Mary Tyler Moore Show! 30 Days of Fun II