Happy Monday, friends. Welcome to #StrongGirlsCan, our summer series for moms and daughters. There’s nothing wrong with being a princess,...

Carson Ellis, Corbyn Player, and McKenzie Smith may look like your average rising seventh grade girls, but look closer. Photo courtesy of...

Welcome to our Strong Girls Can summer series for moms of tweens and teens! Today we have a special guest in the house. I’d like you to m...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our #StrongGirlsCan tween/teen photo contest. The results are in. Dance around, throw your hands i...

About a month ago, I dropped off my daughter at a dodgeball game. The game was at an unfamilar school, and my girl would only know a coup...

It’s time for the Strong Girls Can tween and teen photo contest. Eeek! Can you see me clapping my hands? Can you hear my voice hitting th...

When I was in eighth grade, I ate an entire row of Oreos in one day. I dunked those little cream-filled cookies in milk, and when the per...

Recently, a friend told me I have six more summers with my daughter. Six. Six summers until we are outfitting my girl’s dorm room. Six su...

Recently, I met a friend for lunch. After lunch, we stumbled upon an adorable art gallery. The gallery had just opened. The artists were ...

Question and answer posts thrill me. Let’s catch up, shall we? Reading: If You Find this Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundr...

I know a single mom who is a recovering addict. Every day she rides a bus an hour and twenty-five minutes to a job she doesn’t like. Afte...

Holy moly, friends, it’s been six months since the release of When More is Not Enough. I did not remember this little fact on my own (say...

People are attracted to glorious. Glorious views. Glorious missions. Glorious messages. Glorious ideas. No one likes boring. We certainly...

This year I didn’t make resolutions. I didn’t write a list of goals. I didn’t even pretend this would be the year I change my make-up reg...

Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking of you. Yes, indeedy. I have. I’m wondering if this time of year makes you feel joyous and giddy or if i...

Teach your girls to speak. Start a Snowball awards grants to do-gooding kids who have big ideas and little bank accounts. Applying for th...

Are you up for some Giving Tuesday fun? Me too. I created a comprehensive list of 100 gifts that give back. This list totally trumps the ...

Each week throughout the month of November, I am hosting special guests, and these lovelies will discuss topics which correlate from chap...

Around these parts, every Monday during the month of November, I invite a special guest to share, and we focus on a new chapter in When M...

I thought of you and where you’d gone and the world spins madly on.—The Weepies I wanted an egg roll, but I didn’t want to wait. So I mic...