Presents and Presence

Presents and Presence

As any child of the 80’s & early 90’s will tell you, there was only one day of the year that was almost as exciting as Christmas itself: and that was the day the Sears (and/or JCPenny) Christmas catalog showed up in the mailbox. It usually arrived somewhere around October, shrink-wrapped in a protective plastic […]

Long Way Home

Long Way Home

This fall, a ton of us in the blogging industry got sucker punched in the gut with a Google algorithm update. These updates happen often, multiple times per year, so the update in and of itself was not a surprise. What was a surprise was how the update massively – and negatively – affected the […]

The Seconds.

The Seconds.

When my boys were babies, I quickly realized how true the saying was that things never get easier, the difficulty just shifts. For example, there will come a day when your newborn baby finally sleeps through the night. (Brand new moms and dads to screaming infants: I assure this is the truth, hang in there!) […]