What is True Beauty?
Next week I’m speaking with a group of fifth grade girls at a local elementary school about true beauty. This will be my third time speaking at this school on this topic. However, rather than repeat what I taught before, I found myself being pulled back to the drawing board. Beauty is complicated, and it...
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Supporting Black-Owned
Each of us is physically and emotionally exhausted from these past few months. However, we must not stop. We are banging hard at the door of real change.
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A Look Back: 10 Years of Blogging
This blog has given me great joy over these last 10 years. It has allowed me to share encouraging words with you, my readers. It has helped me process my thoughts during difficulties, and it has kept me in touch with the good in others.
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Tales from the Tarmac – A Girl & Her Orange Suitcase
Never assume your problem is too small to be addressed. Write the letter, make the phone call, send the e-mail. If it matters to you, it is important.
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What’s Happening on My Podcast
I felt it was important for my audience to hear my voice. It’s one thing to read my words, and something else entirely for you to hear me share what is on my mind and heart.
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What I Learned from Accidental Icon
While she loves fashion and has her own distinct style, Dr. Slater was not looking to start a fashion blog.
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Tidying Up in 2019
What I learned in Marie Kondo's book is too much for a blog post, so I created two podcasts to cover the best bits. Consider it your Cliff’s Notes!
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The Birth of a Podcast
I created a podcast called Bethany Says: Beauty, Style & You. My podcast is for everyone who wants to feel more in tuned with themselves, more confident and more relaxed in their own skin.
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Christmas – Don’t Miss It
Do you feel a little down on Christmas day? I do, and now I understand why. It is a single day, which for our family includes brunch, presents, music and mayhem… and then it’s over. Huh.
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2018, The Year of the Bully
Although my current career is focused largely on encouragement, I know I have been a bully.
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She Can’t Do It
I took an introduction to gymnastics class when I was a kid. During my turn on the uneven bars, one of the instructors said (as she was standing directly beside me), “She can’t do it.”
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The Day the Clouds Parted: Remembering Lancaster R5682
The people of the province of Friesland went to great effort, first of all, to salvage what remained of the aircraft last fall in September/October 2017 in what was once a landfill in the early 20th Century.
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When Life Demands a Pause
Life always has a few tricks up its sleeve. When life tells you to stop or slow down, do it. Have faith that there is a greater purpose for it than at first meets the eye.
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Looking Back and Moving Forward
Sometimes you have to look back in order to move forward. I have been doing a lot of looking back in the almost three years we have been in Seattle.
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It’s Not You, It’s Your Metabolism
We are mentally overweight and overburdened because we don't metabolize life experiences the way we once did.
