making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on May 14th, 2012 | No Comments »
I would love to know if any studies have been conducted comparing the happiness or self-esteem levels of bloggers to non-bloggers. For that matter, I would like to see if there are any studies about the happiness of creative people in general. It seems to me like the creative bloggers would have the scales TOTALLY tipped in their favor, especially if the attendees at SNAP (a Utah craft bloggers conference) were any indication. To be able to express oneself creatively, …
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Amy Sullivan on May 11th, 2012 | No Comments »
I gave birth to our second born daughter, Ruby, on the side of the road. No joke. I wasn’t holding out on traveling to the hospital or crossing my fingers about a spectacular home birth. Instead, a super, fast delivery and road construction played havoc on my birth plan…
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on May 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
Instead of featuring amazing moms one-at-a-time, I’m going to share three fantastic moms with you this week. These mom bloggers are raising awareness of what it’s like to raise a child who has received an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. We’ve mentioned or featured some before, like Nichol Hardy… and
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on April 30th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The power of social media is presence.The possibilities of making a difference… in the world through social media is through awareness, don’t you agree? And hopefully that awareness is powerful enough to drive real-world action. In the case of fighting childhood deaths caused by easily-preventable diseases, real-world action is definitely
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »
Nicole Lazzaro is my hero in many ways. She is a pioneer of video games; she studied the psychology behind them at Stanford and created a consulting company, XEODesign, that provides leading-edge expertise on “first-player experience design” on the emotion and the fun of games…. She’s in
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moms making a difference • bettering communities
by Carissa Rogers on April 18th, 2012 | No Comments »
There’s a really good chance you are a volunteer or you are helped by a volunteer every single day! And as a parent, teachers make a daily difference in your life as well. This week (April 16-22nd) is National Volunteer Week. And May 7-15th is Teacher Appreciation Week.
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on April 16th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Megan Faulkner Brown has one sweet job. She is the founder of The Sweet Tooth Fairy, a confectionary known for its delectable cupcakes… and cakebites. A relatively new shop, it has seen great growth over the past few years, developing from a basement business to a franchise of nine stores
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on April 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
It is perhaps cliché, but so very true, that out of the hardest moments… of our lives often come the most beautiful diamonds. Would that it weren’t so, that we didn’t have to be “cut” so. Would that we could designate an age, say 30, after which we could all
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on April 2nd, 2012 | 1 Comment »
To talk to Jessie Funk now, you would never guess that she used to be an insecure teenage girl who was bullied… a lot and who bullied others herself. She is now in her mid 20′s, a confident singer, motivational speaker, author, nonprofit director, wife, and mother. But she hasn’t
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making a difference! • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on March 26th, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Being a mom, and being the best mom she can be, is a passion of Heather Ledeboer’s. She is the proud mother of five children, “four on earth and one in heaven,” and, like Jenny Eckton and Loralee Choate…, who have also survived the loss of a child,
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