I have a LOT of feelings about the COVID-19 outbreak and the paranoia and media coverage surrounding it. It's dredged up a lot of memories of my dad, and of his fight in ICU in December 2013-January 2014. COVID-19 Coronavirus / CDC A month after he was admitted, we were suddenly without my dad. He… Continue reading The 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak: Keeping It In Perspective
Looking back on 2018.... I think this may have been the best year of my life thus far. On January 8, during the Alabama-Georgia national championship game halftime, I took a pregnancy test. I was nervous because Alabama was behind, and I had an extra test available…. it was positive. I was pregnant! We went… Continue reading Kristen’s 2018 in review: A year of amazing, grateful change
I'm nearly 37 weeks pregnant... we'll hit that in 2 days, at which point I'll be full-term with my and Brian's first child, a boy. A baby, not mine. Photo by Jernej Graj on Unsplash I am so fascinated at how my mindset and attitude have changed over the course of this pregnancy. Hormones have hijacked my brain,… Continue reading Mommy Brain: How pregnancy has changed me
This post originally appeared on the Swarm Agency blog on June 16, 2015 during my time as a project manager there. -------------- You may have heard a little buzz across your social networks lately about what’s been dubbed the Oregon Trail generation. First written about back in April, I shared this post across my social networks,… Continue reading The Oregon Trail Generation
This originally appeared on the Swarm Agency blog on April 21, 2015 during my time as a project manager there. ---------------------- As a project manager for Swarm, it’s a must that I stay connected, communicative and productive at all times. As a PM, not only am I helping to wrangle project timelines, agency resources, project… Continue reading 6 Tools That Help You Juggle Tasks
10 years ago this month, the blog Cute Overload featured my chocolate Lab, Mango, as a puppy. Getting accepted as a submission was a huge achievement for me back then. Here's the blog post. And below is the best part, the photo that was chosen. Mango still loves her naps, but 10 years later, she doesn't quite… Continue reading Cute Overload: 10 Years Later
For about the past year, I've been feeling a certain way. I wasn't sure what to call it until recently, but I can sum it up now as feeling tribe-less. It's not a real word, but it's how I feel. Growing up, my family moved around every year or two until age 8. Starting in… Continue reading Tribe-less
When I re-branded and re-launched my blog last year, I wrote a new intro: "I am a work in progress. I’m journeying toward a better career for me, a healthier lifestyle, and financial freedom in order to attain my BIG goals." Well, the good news, one of those things -- the career -- is a nice… Continue reading My Hashimoto’s Journey
If you had told me back in January that by the end of this year, I would be working back in the local news business, I would have looked at you like you had two heads. Rewinding back to 2012... it was that year that I ran away, screaming, from my last local newsroom, after… Continue reading Circling Back and Failing Up
I've been on a wild goose chase for five years. It all started when my husband and I first relocated to Orlando from Alabama in August 2011. News and social media were my passions. I took a job managing the website of one of the local news channels. They even paid for my relocation. Six… Continue reading When Faith Supplants Fear
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