Ninja training mindscape

This past week I had the awesome opportunity to attend the Internet Ninja Marketing training, produced by Mindscape at Hanon McKendry.  (#ImaNinja)  The conference was intended to teach attendees marketing ninjitsu in two grueling days, and Pete Brand and crew (Paul Ferrier, Jeff Bell, Christina Torri, and Rebecca Dutcher) were able to do exactly that. Unfortunately I [...]

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Week Fifty Two: Happy trails to you, until we meet again…

Maybe you read every post and took just a little something from each one.  Maybe you read one or two posts and devoured them.  Maybe you intended to follow each week but lost track after a while.  The beauty of a blog is that it’s here f…

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Best Face from Jan. 2011 | Grand Rapids Photographer

iheartfaces is having a People’s Choice contest this week for their challenge.  The category is Best Face from January 2011.  Here is my entry: I absolutely love the expressions in this photo – definitely the best face of January for me!  Dad is totally the focal point of this image – I love his pride [...]

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Brothers don’t shake hands…

Brothers gotta hug! They get along really well, probably better than we could hope for.  We see siblings scrapping all the time but these two are best friends.  Sure, Preston gets angry when Matt won’t stop “hugging” him, and Matt doesn’t want to play cars and legos nearly as much as his brother does, but

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Aneurysm Scars Edition

Aneurysm Posts Start Here

Right after I got home from the hospital
when the house became a make shift hospital with a bed for me downstairs
and a daily babysitter
and lounge pants
and flowers starting to wilt
and people arriving with meals
my Sister …

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Baby Shower – 1/29/11 – 34 weeks

We had our baby shower on Saturday and it was a success! Everything turned out perfectly and it was wonderful to celebrate and share the news of our little one with family and friends. I am so thankful for all of the supportive people we have in our li…

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The Garden People’s Choice Awards!

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire…give us the tools and we will finish the job.  

~Winston Churchill
It was informative learning which garden tools my fellow Facebook friends and gardeners liked best!&nbsp…

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Team Blue – It’s A Boy!

We can finally share the news, Baby Burke is a boy! “What?!? How?! I thought they didn’t know!?!” I know, I know, our original plan was to wait and have Baby Burke be a surprise, but we ended up changing those plans. Dennis and I have known since Octob…

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A huge rock gets thrown in the Angel Investment pond

According to TechCrunch, “Everything just changed in the Angel Investing world.” They’re right.  And if you’re an entrepreneur looking for funding, this is a HUGE win. “This evening they’ve just made a blanket investment offer to every Y Combinator startup in the most recent batch. They’re going to invest in all of them. Every single one. [...]

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People’s Pierogi Collective travels to the Thumb

On Friday January 21st the Peoples Pierogi Collective was invited to speak at the Women in Agri-Business III conference by ThumbWorks, a Michigan Works! Agency. The event featured four presenters on different areas of how to get started and to transition to the Agri-Business industry and was attended by about 100 women that were in [...]

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