One of my favorite blogs is A Greater Gorgeous, written by my cousin, Susannah Thomson Craft, a licensed hairstylist and makeup artist in Richmond, Virginia. She does a marvelous job of integrating principles of inner beauty while she’s teaching secrets of outer beauty. So many women today seem to be learning critical life lessons earlier than I […]
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God-Hugs and the Beautiful People Who Deliver Them
What’s a God-hug? God-hugs are those wonderful moments of grace, insight, wisdom, or love that come to you out of the blue at exactly the moment you need them most. Sometimes it’s a phone call, or perhaps a note or letter. More often than not, it’s something you hear or read or see. It can […]
Are you kind to yourself?
UPDATE: This post was originally published in 2011. Cyndi Briggs’s blog, The Sophia Project, is no longer active, but the main point of this post is still very valid. It’s easier to be kind to others than to ourselves Most of us are kind to others most of the time. Most of us will go out […]
Why I’ve given up on self-improvement (and so should you)…
I hate Bradford Pear trees. Hate them. It’s not because they’re trees. Trees in general, I like. As a whole, nature is my friend. My dislike of the poor Bradford Pear has to do with the human tinkering that brought it to so many suburban lawns in the mid 1990s. Dubbed the “perfect tree,” Bradford […]