When I was in high school, I couldn’t wait to graduate and move away to college. I grew up in a homogeneous community where most everyone else looked like me, thought like me, talked and acted like me. I wasn’t mature enough to explain what I was feeling, but I wanted to travel somewhere new, … More Learning how to really live!
We are celebrating our 50th podcast in this episode. We talk about my favorite quote as it relates to pulling ourselves together to start something – and then sticking with it. Your first podcast will be awful.Your first video will be awful.Your first article will be awful.Your first art will be awful.Your first photo will … More Episode 50: The Art of Practice
As we continue to focus on ‘change’ this month, I started thinking about the word from a progress and repeating patterns point of view. When we take a step in a certain direction, are we committing to our path, or do we give ourselves the grace of u-turns and do-overs– without branding our efforts as … More Sunny Sonny 🌞
A teaser for the online event that Vicki and Wynne are doing with Revel Eleven. What if one small thing – a story, a conversation, a person, an adventure – could change your life for the better? … More One Change Away
The Sharing the Heart of the Matter podcast is back with its first episode of 2024! This year we are putting special emphasis on the why and how of creativity. We start the season with a special episode with Dr. Vicki Atkinson. We know and love our writing, blogging friend, and podcasting friend Vicki. But … More Episode 49: Six-Word Stories with Dr. Victoria Atkinson
Some people embrace change. Others fear it. Me? I chase after it like a kid in hot pursuit of an ice cream truck on a scorching summer afternoon. (On a side note: RIP, Choco Taco. You are missed.) The last time I had a Choco Taco was my first day as a Wisconsin resident: Aug. … More The world is my Moo Goo Gai Pan.
My wife and I were counting pennies. We were a young married couple with our first child and a baby on the way. On one of our few date nights out, instead of enjoying some quality couples time, we were instead patrolling the aisles at Best Buy looking over the latest and greatest in VHS … More Keeping up with the times
I think it’s fair to say that we know and love our writing and blogging friend, Vicki. But of course, dear Vicki has worn a lot of other hats – therapist, professor, college dean, author. And one of the places where her incredible experience wearing all these hats comes together? Six-word stories. That’s our podcast … More A podcast tease, short and sweet
To start the year off light, I wanted to do a list post. I think this beginning-of-the-year period always makes me a bit leery. Leery because my default is not, “I can’t wait to see what this year brings!!” Nope, I’m more like, “Oh God, what is this year going to bring?!” So, writing a cute little list post gives me a satisfying feeling of cozy comfort as I face all the uncertainty of 2024. … More 4 Changes That Don’t Freak Me Out
Our theme this month at Heart of the Matter is change. As I mulled this topic over the past few days, I was drawn in by two quotes. Both are well-known…a Chinese proverb about planting trees…. now….and a Seneca quote about beginnings and endings. (Both are snipped into the graphic above. I love them – … More Dancing With Change
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