Beth’s Blog
I've been blogging since 2012.
It’s no coincidence that’s less than a year after my second divorce, and what I thought was the end of my goal-oriented life. I write about unifying life experiences—often the stuff people think but don’t say out loud.
You will find posts on both overcoming traumatic events and achieving goals including the following topics:
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- divorce
- having cancer (leukemia) and a Bone Marrow Transplant
- mom/daughter dynamics
- raising a teenager
- single-parenting
- dating as an almost 40-year-old (not) virgin
- Christianity
- becoming an avid marathoner
- and empty-nesting.
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Oh…and I write a lot about leadership, career development, corporate culture and USING YOUR VOICE in the workplace. #changeyourtone.
Latest on the blog
Quick and Easy
Monday morning quick (right) post from the office. And no. I will not be answering the question of Are you really just procrastinating? so please don’t even bother. I finally got out of circa 2001 and into Windows 10 with my home computer. Sure, I sell technology for a living, but regardless, it’s kind of a thing with […]
Repeat After Me
I have fifteen minutes to write this post. It’s 4:30am and in exactly 30 minutes I will be running mile repeats to see if anything is in fact, repeatable. I’ve not run a full marathon since April of 2014, I’ve not trained properly for this one, and I’ve not put myself through such draining tumult since at […]
Nothing Much
So my husband – yeah, you read that right – told me yesterday in his classic direct and awesome way that the most talented writers write 7 days a week for at least four hours per day. Problem solved. You guys know I love inspirational quotes, but I’ll spare you from reading the ones about […]
Cougar Visions
How long has it been? So many ways to answer that question, although for our present purposes let’s just say wayyyyy too long. I’ve missed writing. I’ve missed this blog. But I have not missed a thing as of late… Marathon training – check. Spending time with family and especially Liv before she goes back […]
Embracing Risk
I’m starting to understand why writers always post things about getting rejected a zillion times before they are finally published. This is the second Reading Report I wrote for class. Extra effort. More explanation. Better grammatical structure. Less sleep. More focus. 2 percentage points lower. Lovely. The mere fact that I am posting it anyway […]
Subjective Grading
So the good news is, 97% is still an A and the color gray continues to work on my former-entire-life-black-and-white-wait-why is this not 100 percent?-mentality. All I gotta say is, there must be a reason the colors of a rainbow are ROY-G-BIV. If you want to check out two good reads about some different viewpoints […]
Inhumane
I had the pleasure of attending Mars Hill church in Grand Rapids this morning. Peter Rollins delivered the message. If either he or Mars Hill are new to you, Google them because a) you should and b) I’m too mentally drained to hit the link icon on here. One of us gets to be lazy […]
Bust A Move
Before spiritual maturity = Young MC Now/today/getting closer = Go out and help others. Go make disciples. Fine, chant the lyrics if that’s your pre-game, but know the better message to spread before you get wherever it is that you’re going. And I know you maybe don’t know where that is yet. Trust me, I […]
Ec-you-what?
Ecumenical. It’s my new favorite slash most frustrating word of late. It means “representing a number of different churches,” i.e. nondenominational, universal, latitudinarian, all-embracing, all-inclusive…you get the gist. I had no idea it was even a thing, let alone that there was a word for it, and you know how I feel about words. Enrolled […]
