Category: Mom’s Journal
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Navigating London & Life Jan 2020
Hello, sweet friends! I’ve just arrived in London for a few meetings here and in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the next week. It’s just after 9 am here, making it just after 3 am back home in Texas. (I try not to think of the time back home, but I had to share.) I snapped that…
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Giving Thanks: Gifts from a winter storm
Give thanks to the Lord; proclaim his name! Make his works known among the peoples. Declare that his name is exalted. Isaiah 12:4 Hello sweet friends! I am taking in the beautiful snow at Cornell University right now and just HAD to share it with you. I am parked here for a few days, awaiting…
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Hearing HIM through the noise
Does anyone else struggle in hearing His clear direction? I want to follow Him. I trust Him. I don’t think faith in Him is the problem… it’s faith in me to hear Him clearly. I look back on my life and see His hand so very clearly in so many ways in every single place.…
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Drinking from the firehose of life… or balancing Giant Jenga
Hi friends. (Even if I have never laid eyes on every single one of you, I still feel like we’re friends since you’re reading about the details of my life. So I hope the casual greeting is okay with you.) This summer has been super crazy packed full. It’s been filled with gorgeous, beautiful amazing…
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Uganda, Seychelles, Bordeaux, San Francisco and Sweden – Back from three weeks away
Last week I returned home from just over three weeks away. Chronologically I was in San Francisco, Bordeaux for VinExpo (with stopovers in transit in Paris for lunch and ice cream!) rural Uganda with Love Does, the Seychelles (off the coast of Africa), and Stockholm, Sweden. I also spent MANY hours in the Dubai airport…
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And so I travel…
Traveling for work is an interesting thing… As much as most of my travel is to advance VineSleuth, it still feels odd saying ‘work’ there. Work implies that it is forced, but my work is my choice. I’m building this business and every trip is a decision. Do I stay or do I go? Is…
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Inspiration from a funeral… and a live well lived
When I heard that my friend’s mom had died, I was, of course, crushed. I don’t think I’ll ever forget sitting in the middle of that conference last week, thousands of people buzzing all around me, exhausted and yet exhilarated from sharing my business with potential clients, taking a break from standing on my…
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Reflections on Christmas Dinner 2015
I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas, in whatever level of wonderfulness was possible for you. Yesterday we tried something new for Christmas. My husband and I prepared our fancy Christmas dinner just for us and our children. On Christmas Eve we celebrated with my husband’s family, which was very nice, as it…
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God’s planning: Blood clots, silver linings, writing, reading and Argentina
So here’s a thought on God’s planning: Today my family is skiing. I am not with them because of the blood thinners I am on as a result of my blood clot from surgery in March. Instead I am sitting in a cozy ‘reading room’ in a gorgeous hotel, draped over a cushy leather chair…
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And then there was the blood clot, and SXSW
You know when you go to the hospital emergency room and they scan your ID bracelet, except it doesn’t work? And then the nurse realizes that’s because he is scanning the bracelet from the OTHER hospital you visited that day? Yeah. That happened to me last week. The hospitals are right next to each other,…
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Knee Arthoscopy & Recovery
It’s been nearly one week since I had knee surgery. The recovery has been much slower than I anticipated. That could be because I missed a few sentences that explained how long recovery would take in my eagerness to get well. Let me back up a bit…
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Knee Surgery and MS 150
In my last post I shared that it looked as though I needed knee surgery to take care of a tear in my meniscus. My knee had been hurting for quite awhile and finally I made the connection that it had begun hurting after I fell in the MS 150 bike ride from Houston to…
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A quick trip to Napa and TV appearance in Houston were just a part of my week…
What a week! Monday I found out, while waiting to have an MRI done on my knee, that it would be wise to attend the Wine Market Council’s annual meeting in Napa which was Friday. I logged onto United, checked for award flights, booked the trip and asked my rock star assistant, Brittany, to reserve…
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He’s got your back– and your plan
Today’s scripture is one I see people lean on in times of trouble, but it’s one I smile about in times of joy, too. Actually it makes me smile a LOT in times of joy. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit…
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Weary? Ask for some strength
Last week I had an absolutely whirlwind week of meetings in Manhattan. I hit the ground running Saturday afternoon and had meetings every single day and night I was there until I left the following Saturday afternoon. And every single meeting was amazing. Really. (If you follow me on Instagram, you got a taste of my…