I am so excited to share my June Favorites with you! Thank goodness for the joy we can find in the small things these days. I hope sharing my favorites with you each month brings you some fresh ideas and things that will brighten your day. I read Live Love […]
Author: Cassie Douglas
10 Ways to Support Small Businesses
Small businesses are the backbone of our great nation. They consistently create about 60% of new jobs in America. Our friends and neighbors own them. They may employ us or people we know. Small local businesses and their owners donate to our school fundraisers, nonprofit fundraisers, churches and scholarship funds. […]
Expanding Empathy Through Education
It breaks my heart to see the condition of our world today. The racial injustices, the divisiveness, the anger and violence, the senseless murders and the loss of our officers trying to keep the peace–these events lay heavy on my heart, as they do for many. I watched Emmanuel Acho’s […]
May Favorites
I feel like May flew by, after a loooong April. School is ending, summer is beginning, and businesses are re-opening! Things are looking brighter for everyone, I hope. I am celebrating the one-year anniversary of my blog with a giveaway! I will randomly draw one name from my subscriber list […]
Record Your Story
Last year, I came across a box of old momentos from when I was a kid. It was so much fun for me to sort through the items—remembering (and trashing) the old trophies, reading through old diaries and papers, laughing at my early art and browsing through old photo albums […]
5 Ways to Grow in Grace
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed some disturbing trends. My high achieving friends are distressed by their disrupted schedules. There is increased criticism toward leadership as well as anyone in the public eye. People are taking offense at any opinion or behavior that doesn’t align with their own, responding […]
April Favorites
April is officially in the books! Doesn’t it still feel like we are living in a weird dream? I have been clinging to things that bring me joy or help me during this time, and have taken to sharing some of these things in my weekly email to subscribers. You […]
Using Disruption to Pivot
This forced disruption of our normal lives has caused many changes, both temporary and permanent. We may have lost opportunities that we will never be able to go back and experience. Relationships with family may have been renewed or healed. We may have picked up some habits and routines that we […]
March Favorites
While our world faces the urgent pandemic of the Coronavirus, many of us sit gratefully by, doing our part to stay at home and not spread the virus. Our gratitude goes out to the doctors, nurses, and all of the essential workers who are keeping our country running. My March […]
Checking In On Your Goals
As we await the restart of our normal life, it’s a great time to re-evaluate our 2020 goals, as a few things might have changed since January 1. While this time during the Coronavirus pandemic is hard, it is also temporary. We will get rid of this virus. Those who […]