Designer Wear

by | Sep 5, 2016 | Trends

Believe it or not, the day has come! Stores are flashing its arrival – taunting us to dive in with excitement. Some of us dread the task, as we cringe at marketing everywhere we look. Oh, the audacity of interrupting the beautiful summer weather and our routine of no...

Hot Reads for Summer Nights

by | Aug 8, 2016 | Trends

Ah, summer. Time to relax, lie on the hammock, sit at the beach, and read a book. That’s how it goes in my mind, anyway. Now, if I could just get it to play out that way in real life. Nonetheless, I do manage to sneak in a few minutes of reading before I turn out the...

The Summer Slide

by | Aug 4, 2016 | Trends

People from my generation as a child of the 70s will all understand why you avoided the metal slide at certain hours of the day. As painful of an event as that could be, some children experience a different kind of pain with the summer slide, albeit not the one at the...

How Do You Wear Your Pearls?

by | Jul 21, 2016 | Trends

While shopping with a client last week, she asked me for ideas of how to wear pearls in an “everyday” style. Pearls are a trademark of certain women, such as Jackie Kennedy and Barbara Bush, who wore pearls in a classic style. Those trademark styles have influenced...

Jen’s Conference Experience

by | Jul 12, 2016 | Trends

Each of us is faced with thousands of choices every day that define our thoughts, our behavior, and who we are to the world. This fall’s Thrive Conference explores the idea that the choices we make hold power and provide opportunities that influence ourselves,...

A God You Can Trust

by | Jun 23, 2016 | Trends

I LOVE sci-fi movies, I love action movies, and I love superhero movies. But when I watch movies about “gods” and “demi-gods,” as awesome as some of the movies are, I can’t help but see how they fail in comparison in so many ways to our One, True God! Since we do have...