Curating Your Butt 3

So I promised that I would highlight some bloggers with the right chromosomes as I had already highlighted six males.

In no particular order:

Lady number one: @sueyoungmedia. Sue was one of the first I began to follow and comment on and she actually responded! Gave me that initial hope that this whole blogging thing might be worth while. She focuses on PR mainly, but here is the post that caught me and made me come back for more. Love the title alone. Catch her here.

Lady number two: @DeirdreReid. Deirdre is a Triangle-based blogger who is writing freelance, but definitely focused on her association background. She has plugged into the social media scene in Raleigh fast, but really knows how to focus on the social media aspect to expand her base. She has written some doozy posts lately, but you can get feel for her with her latest "look back" post.

Last but not least: Kristy Hines AKA @kikolani. Kristy writes and hosts GREAT posts about blogging and all the issues associated with it. She has a regular Friday post that is just a superior rundown on things you should know. See her latest Fetching Friday here before you check out the rest of awesome blog.

New Life

It's weird, sad and slightly freeing. I've been headed towards a completely different life for a lot longer than I even knew. It took me a while to catch up to realize it was happening. Thankfully, I was cognizant enough to see it finally and mostly ready for it. It's amazing when you have the rug completely pulled out from underneath you. The adjustments are jarring. I made mistakes, but like most I learned from them, adapted, and tried my best to do better. The reason you see that truck next to a storage place? That's the sum of my life right now. Never take for granted that you will work hard for something or someone, and it will end up meaning very little. You are guaranteed nothing, owed nothing, promised nothing. Anything and everything can be taken away in a heartbeat. I wrote this to my kids a while back: I tried to be the best father I could be based on what I knew when I knew it and how I could. One of the lessons for your life needs to be: you n...

Guiding Light

Most folk who know me, know I lost my father when I was 14 years old. However, before he passed, he shared a timeless secret with me—a practice that would shape my life in ways I could never have imagined. He didn't teach me meditation in the traditional sense, with incense and crossed legs. Instead, he showed me how to meditate by gazing at a lone light on the ceiling. When I was very young, I had night terrors that would wake me in the middle of the night. I'm sure it was terribly frustrating to calm a child from that. But my father had the way. I never understood how he came to the practice. But over the years, I've come to understand that my father's unique approach to meditation was, in fact, a profound lesson in mindfulness and presence. In a nearly pitch black room, he would tell me to find a speck of light, not unlike a star. Then focus. He would say, "Just watch the light, like you're watching a story unfold. Be the observer, not the thinker." I...

Check out my appearance on the The Toddcast Podcast

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Todd Lyden

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