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Why I Mentor
I’m excited to have a repeat poster for this week’s summer showcase story. You might remember Daryk from her “In your face, Lucy” post from last summer. If, like me you find her posts to be both...
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Teaching Generosity: A Tribute to my Grandparents
When I started this series on how we spend our “cognitive surplus” I knew I wanted to include a family oriented story. I did not, however, expect to write that post myself. That changed a week ago...
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Permission to be Multi Passionate
I’m so excited welcome Deanna Lohnes, back to the blog. You may remember her from last summer’s Kardashian /Cardasian mix up. Deanna teaches solopreneurs and small businesses to create effective...
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An opportunity to work with Brené Brown
Edit: Sorry, this opportunity is over One of the producers for Katie Couric’s new daytime show e-mailed me about Brené Brown’s upcoming appearance on the show and asked me to pass on this invitation...
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Want to Try Something New?
As some of you know, I dumped my monthly newsletter in June to try a new experiment. So far, it’s working out pretty well so I’m sharing it with you here. If it sounds like fun, I’d love to have you...
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Breaking the Cycle of Violence
This week’s summer showcase post tells a difficult but important story about how one woman is using what she learned through her own personal tragedy to make sure her children, and children like hers...
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It’s Time to Start Shining Your Light
I am surrounded by people (especially women) who have so much to offer the world. They are amazingly dedicated, talented, generous and kind. Many of them are also almost completely blind to their own...
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Brain Cancer Survivor asks Why NOT me?
One of the things I love most about the summer showcase is it gives me a chance to share the stories of people using their lives to prove that no matter what you hear on the news, humans have a great...
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Choosing to Live in Color
This week’s summer showcase post is from my friend and LHF Greenhouse member, Jade. In addition to being generally awesome, Jade blogs at the Madness of Monotony and recently had a piece about...
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It’s my Birthday!
It’s my Birthday! That means cake and balloons* for me, but I mention it here because it also means today is the last day to get a discount on your LHF Greenhouse membership. If you have a project...
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The Not-so Lonely Life of the Solopreneur
In honor of the re-opening of the LHF Greenhouse, I’m re-sharing this post from last January about the importance of community–even when you work alone. Enjoy! my office assistant is cute but not...
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What could you stop doing?
This post is reprinted from my weekly try-it e-mail series. If you like it, sign-up here to have each week’s exercise delivered straight to your inbox. Have you noticed how easy it is to add something...
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Buy the Fun Pass
Happy Caine (Photo credit: Leslie Kalohi / nevercoolinschool.com) I’m so enamored with the story of Caine and his arcade. I love the imagination of it, I love how it has appealed to the innate...
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Why don’t volunteers follow through?
How is volunteer management like golf? It’s all about the follow through. (Photo credit: gibsonsgolfer) I’ve asked myself this question more times than I can count. Sometimes I ask it as a manager who...
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Hello, Strangers!
Time to clean out the tumbleweeds! (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Long time, no type! A lot has happened since I last shared this space with you, most notably, I left the solopreneur world to become the...
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Push on the Pull Door
In public buildings if a door is labeled pull, the only way to open it is by following the stated direction. Pushing is only going to make you look foolish. What is true of doors is not necessarily...
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An Alternative to Hierarchical Leadership
These guys need a chain of command. Your family probably doesn’t. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Every now and again someone goes on television to talk about how her husband is the head of her household...
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Nothing to See Here. . .
I’ve been helping out on the WordPress.com forums for a couple weeks and in that time have twice published test posts here that were intended for my test blog. So, if you are here because you got an...
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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
I’ve been traveling a lot lately and on one of those trips I had the pleasure of visiting a college friend and her family. In addition to the general awesomeness of hanging out with people I adore,...
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New way to find images for your website
Rainbows and open licenses make me happy. Photo Credit: Flickr user: Bootbearwdc Great news! Google Image search now includes a filter for searching images licensed for re-use! Just go to Google...
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