Lisa

  • Surviving and thriving in grad school: self-care in grad school

    One of the buzzword topics in higher ed these days is self-care. Working with college students every day can be very emotionally and physically draining. Student affairs professionals preach the need for a good work-life balance, but 98% of them don’t practice that. Self-care goes beyond that work-life balance to really focus on taking care…

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  • Our Hello Fresh experience

    I think most people are familiar with Hello Fresh and their competitors these days: meal kit boxes delivered to your house weekly with full menus and ingredients. Mac and I are back in the swing of cooking on a regular basis, and I was looking for a way to mix things up. I saw a Groupon…

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  • Life lately – August 2018

    I started this post last week and came up with a big ole case of writer’s block. It’s funny how updating everyone with what you’ve been doing causes you to forget everything you’ve been doing. 1. July was surprisingly busy month at work. One of my coworkers took a bunch of time off, and one…

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  • Recent reads – August 2018

    And we’re back with another edition of Recent Reads. I’m still catching up on recaps of what I’ve read in the past three years. I’m also slowly chipping away at the never-ending, always-growing piles of books on my bookshelves. Betsy Ross and the Making of America – Marla Miller Considering Betsy Ross is such a…

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  • Our Georgia bucket list

    I realized yesterday that I never put up our Georgia bucket list. When we moved to Colorado, I decided to make a bucket list of things to do while we lived there. Life happened (Mac was gone basically every month while I did my Master’s on the weekends), so we weren’t able to cross everything…

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  • Advice for a new military spouse

    I originally thought of this blog post at my brother-in-law’s wedding in 2016. He’s also in the Army, and his wife was brand new to the military life. As a third-generation military dependent and an Army wife, I think I’m a pretty good source for advice for a new military spouse. The military life does…

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