Because You Don’t Need a Special Occasion to Make an Occasion In the summer of 2004, I asked a friend a rather unusual question. I wanted to know where I could drag out my good china, silver, crystal glasses and candelabras, set an elaborate table outside, bring a wonderful dinner, and spend an evening with…
Slow Living
The Blue Wagon That Carried Our Childhood Memories
Remember When… The Blue Wagon Knew the Way. “Sometimes the greatest inheritance isn’t a house or a bank account. Sometimes it’s a blue station wagon full of ordinary weekdays that quietly became the story of your childhood.” When people ask me what it was like growing up in Virginia Beach, they usually expect me to…
Why I started Chicks on the Road
There comes a point when you realize the life you carefully built no longer feels like home. For years, I lived in leadership meetings, deadlines, strategic plans, fundraising goals, and calendars packed so tightly there was barely room to breathe. From the outside, it looked successful. In many ways, it was. I was serving organizations…