Most small businesses have a website where their customers and clients can find them online. As well, many are climbing aboard the social media train. But there is another piece of online real estate that small businesses may be overlooking: a blog. While your website is the place to highlight your company, your products or […] Read more
Recently, Steve and I started watching a show on Netflix called, Hart of Dixie. It’s a CW drama that we probably could have lived happily without, but we got hooked, and now we are caught up to the current season, and we hear it might be cancelled. It’s probably for the best. Hart of Dixie […] Read more
dif·fer·ent – adjective \ˈdi-fərnt, ˈdi-f(ə-)rənt\ : not of the same kind : partly or totally unlike : not the same : not ordinary or common __________ Last Saturday during a chat on Twitter, an online friend made a bold statement that momentarily took my breath away. “I finally decided I didn’t need ANOTHER thing to […] Read more
un·read – adjective \-ˈred\ : not read; left unexamined : lacking the experience or the benefits of reading __________ One day, I broke up with my blog. I stuck a letter to the brown marbled wall with Scotch tape, closing out a relationship that had lasted more than four years with the words, “It’s not you, it’s […] Read more
sim·ple – adjective \ˈsim-pəl\ : not hard to understand or do : having few parts : not complex or fancy : not special or unusual __________ In one of my jobs, I am a data analyst. That means that I look at numbers – lots of numbers – and tell stories with them. But to get numbers […] Read more
As my pastor spoke on Sunday from 1 Timothy 1 about the series of bad decisions that can lead a person away from true Gospel ministry and toward a ministry of self-promotion, I couldn’t help but think of this blog. How easy it would be for me to follow the breadcrumbs of self-deceit to believe […] Read more
Sometimes, when I have an idea or a complaint, all I want is to be heard. Recently, I wrote a letter to the Mayor’s office asking that they consider adding sidewalks to the street I live on in conjunction with a city-wide push to make the community more pedestrian friendly. I poured my heart into […] Read more
Today, I am participating in the HighCallingBlogs’ “We Are Real” project. My thoughts about online friendships and how they have impacted my life are being posted at Ann Kroeker’s blog. And she, my new on- and off-line friend, is posting here. You’re going to love meeting Ann. And when you’re done reading her thoughts, jump […] Read more
Over on Seedlings in Stone, LL recently spoke of her blog as a living room where she invites people to come in, enjoy themselves, and enter into a conversation. She set some house rules, even invited us to bring our instruments for a little jam session, if it so pleased the crowd. I like the […] Read more
What could be a better day than Monday to think about the work we all do? And how better to think about work than to take a little tour with me — a three-day tour of The High Calling of our Daily Work’s new website? I have been invited to take part in a three-day […] Read more
