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The Fab 40’s Wear Shorts for Work
I haven’t worked a traditional job with an actual dress code in nearly 9 years, so any time a style challenge is presented to me with “work” involved, I pretty much have free reign to interpret that however I’d like. Working from home allows me all sorts of liberties with my wardrobe. I can work in my jammies, my bathrobe, my sweatpants, jeans, dresses, or my underwear. Hell, I can work naked if I really wanted. If I don’t get too cold. Which is a problem this time of year. But working from home does have it challenges. One of the biggest problems is maintaining self discipline and motivation to…
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The Sunday Afternoon Quarterback #4: Friday Night Fun
#12 Penn State Nittany Lions 59 – Maryland Terrapins 0 As the Big Ten Conference moves into the second year of Friday night games, I was hoping for a repeat of Penn State’s last season Friday night game which resulted in a 63-24 drubbing of the Fightin’ Illini. What I got was a more impressive drubbing of a Maryland team that considers this game much more of a rivalry than Nittany Lion fans do. Now I will say I have a personal rivalry vested in this game as my best friend is a Terrapin faithful. And although Penn State owns a career record of 40-2-1 against the Turtle, one of those…
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Something About You & Link Up On the Edge #164
Last Friday, I was inspired by Ada to share a poem. I talked a little bit about how intimidating it can be to share one’s poetry….written from the heart, exposing all the raw emotions that fight their way onto paper. I was a bit hesitant, but I faced my fear and did it anyway. I must practice what I preach, I suppose. And I am ever so grateful for all the very kind and encouraging comments that I received in response. I saw my rhyming poem, I Thought I’d Known You Before, as unsophisticated in its simple rhyming and repetitive verses. I think I was attempting something that was a…
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Featured Favorites & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #141
Happy Tuesday, my friends! I have been visiting a dear old friend in Virginia since Friday and unfortunately I did not make the time to create any new content for this week’s #SpreadTheKindness post. I am heading home today and will be on the road for at least 10 hours (it is 605 miles one way). So rather than stressing myself out about creating meaningful content, I would rather spend my last day in sunny Virginia absorbing all the sun and down time that I can before heading back to the North Country where Winter will be arriving in, I don’t know, a few hours probably! But I didn’t want…
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The Importance of Sustainability When Clothes Shopping
The part of our brains that helps us coordinate our outfits and the part of our brains that contemplates the idea of long-term environmental threats are probably not working in harmony together. Because these compartments are so disconnected, it is difficult for us to even process the idea that being uninformed in choosing which brands to support could be responsible for over one thousand lives lost in the 2019 heatwave in France. And even in our apparent denial, the evidence keeps surfacing which indicates that our industries are negatively impacting our environment and our climate. While a large amount of people already embracing green initiatives, such as bags for life…
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Inspired by Elegance and Mommyhood: Writing Poetry & Link Up On the Edge #163
I used to write poetry all the time when I was younger. I felt it was easier to express myself in the shorter bursts of emotions that lend themselves better to poems than prose. In fact, in one of my elementary school yearbooks, I am quoted as saying that I wanted to be a poet when I grow up. That quickly morphed into the broader classification of writer once I realized how very little contemporary poets are appreciated in this world. Once upon a time, I had dozens of journals filled with my poetry. But that was all lost in a fire. Not the kind of fire you would suspect…
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Fall Fashion with Rosegal & Your Own Twist Link Up #12
The shift in seasons signifies so much more than just a change in weather. Seasonal changes are reflections of life and the necessary cycles that come with it. In Fall, we celebrate new beginnings with the start of the school year. We celebrate friends and family with the coming of the holidays. We celebrate abundance with the autumn harvest. We celebrate the earth as she begins her slow descent into the frozen hibernation of the Winter months whereby rest is granted in preparation for new life to emerge in Spring. Every season is significant in its own special way. Every season is important in the endless cycle of life. The…
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Introducing Drew Hackney: Music that Moves Me & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #140
I have written a few posts in the past about the Power of Music and My Life in Songs and as I have been doing a lot of self-exploration lately, I am discovering that with life and all of its experiences, the music that moves me has been evolving and changing along the way. If you are a regular reader here, you are probably aware of my newfound love for bluegrass music as I had spent most of my summer weekends chasing the sweet relaxing elixir that the entire bluegrass community provides to my searching soul. In my adventures, I have made some great new friends who are broadening my…
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The Sunday Afternoon Quarterback #3: An Ugly Win is Still a Win
#13 Penn State Nittany Lions 17 – Pittsburgh Panthers 10 One hundred and twenty-six years of rivalry ended on a rainy day in Beaver Stadium with Penn State clawing, biting, and scratching their way to a 17-10 victory over their bitter in-state rival Pittsburgh. This was the 100th meeting between the two teams and on a lightning delayed rainy day in State College, Penn State will hold the series lead 53-43-4 for the foreseeable future. There are currently no scheduled games between these two teams after the current four game series wrapped up on Saturday. Penn State would go 3-1 against Pitt during the four game series winning the last three. Pitt’s only victory…
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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Lace
Welcome to The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book! Welcome! This is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. A while back, Nancy and I started The Bad Buy Book, a monthly series about our worst purchases. It was a lot of fun to do and we both learned something from it, too! Nancy learned that off-white against her face is not the most flattering color. And I learned that I have a serious problem resisting a good thrift shop find when it comes to pieces that fit “good enough” but “not quite right.” However, after running that series for a year, we decided to change it a bit. For this series, you can choose whether you want to share…
