Your Most Creative Self

I read an article recently that talk about how you are most creative between 5 and 7 AM. As someone who has been rising at 5 AM for the majority of this past year, I simply scoffed. There was no way I was most creative from 5-7 AM. It had been nine months, and yet,…

The Banned Book List.

My all-time favorite book has been on the banned book list for years. This morning I googled the banned book list. I found an article with banned/challenged books and the reasons why they were banned/challenged. I have read a handful of those books, and they have proved extremely helpful in shaping my worldview. What I…

What I Learned Running The Backpack Program

I am currently interning under the Director of Missions and Outreach at my church. A few years back we began partnering with the food bank and local schools to provide lower-income students bags of food to take home with them. As an intern, I was asked to complete an assortment of random tasks that ranged…

Understanding The Facebook Algorithm

As we rang in the New Year; I noticed that some of the Facebook pages I manage were having such a hard time getting our analytics up. Near the end of February, I started researching the Facebook Algorithm. I decided that I wanted to understand why these pages were struggling. Overall our content wasn’t anything…

A Letter To The Past

Today I was leading a creative team meeting; one of our activities was writing letters. These letters were letters to the past. I thought that I would include mine because I feel like I’m not the only one who needs to read it. “So, you tried. Don’t ever forget that it’s ok to say no….