Blogging has brought some incredible people into my life, and one of them is my friend Tresha (TREE-sha) Thorsen of Thought by Thought. I'm sharing her words and photos of her here because I want all of you to know just why she is so special to me! It all started in 2007 when she emailed me to say that she had seen the BlogHer '07 badge on my blog and was also going to be there and would love to meet me. Despite having each other's cell numbers, she looked for me that Thursday night, all day Friday, and all day Saturday before finally literally standing right in front of me that Saturday night. I had taken a photo of her Friday morning when everyone got up for "speed dating" without even realizing it was her! Tre is a healer. She works with people to help them learn to push aside those negative, self-doubting inner voices that hold us back and learn to accept ourselves, to treat ourselves with kindness, to live thought by thought if that's what it takes. Just being … [Read more...]
How A Blogger Named Suebob Changed My Life – Happy Birthday Suebob!
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” Today is the birthday of Sue Davis, also known as Suebob, also known as Suebob from Red Stapler, someone a lot of bloggers adore, and when I got an email asking me to post something for her birthday, something that would let her know how special she is to me, I knew exactly what I wanted to post. This is part of the Incredibly True Story of How I Went to BlogHer 2006, and the story starts with Suebob! On May 16, 2006, I had been blogging for eight months when I got an email that changed everything. Suebob (yes, SueBOB, it's been her nickname for a long time) from Red Stapler had run a contest to give away a free pass to that summer's BlogHer conference, and the winner of her contest, IzzyMom, had already purchased her ticket and wanted to give her free pass away to someone else. Izzy emailed me to see if I wanted her BlogHer ticket, … [Read more...]
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