sigh. once again, i don’t know the rules to the dance. it’s this tug-a-war of our times. you see, i’m a small-town girl. my grandparents didn’t live in an age of social media; yet they had a beautifully full life. they are the people i model my life after. they put people first: my grandmother made [...]
less is becoming a really important message for me. in this journey we are on as business owners, running both businesses out of our home – we are being schooled on our attachment to more. the office across the hall calls. the left over things from the day weigh on the mind. the “if [...]
in business, the message is always – grow. there are different methods for this, there are differing opinions about this – but the message stays the same. this summer though, we are learning, once again, how to go against the grain. we have decided to get off the hamster wheel. we have decided that [...]
welcome back to forge. as i read back over my previous posts to forge, i see how they are both introductions of a sort. i’m recognizing that i’m inclined to keep things light…yet i’m dying to dive in to what’s deep. i love to get below the surface…talk about what really drives a person; find [...]
i recently had a conversation with a prospective tenant who used to run her own marketing company. she loved our take on property management but she expressed that the word dwell has negative connotations for most people. i was confused until she reminded me of the saying “to dwell on something” which certainly sends most [...]
let’s go back to small town chemistry 101. we were each given a beaker containing an unknown substance. our job was to heat it, centrifuge it, shake it, and sometimes even blow it up…all with a keen eye watching for clues of how our substance responded. was there a change in texture, color, smell, feel? those changes were [...]
imagine the scene. high school chemistry class in a small town. the teacher had already retired but was so good the school didn’t want to lose him, so they contracted him back for another year. i’m not sure if all those years of chemistry experiments had gone to his head but our experiments that year [...]