by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 27, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Yesterday a friend posted a note on Facebook that said: So for the first time in my life I actually kept two New Years resolutions the whole year long. As I reflect on 2012, I'm pretty proud of myself! It was remarkable because it so seldom happens that we actually...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 26, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Two decades ago, my little family headed out from our home in Boca Raton, Florida, for a week at Disney World. Orlando was a three hour drive and I was taking the kids up to meet up with Sam, who was already there attending an engineering conference. Driving long...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 25, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
We've all heard the idiom “practice makes perfect.” But it's not true. Consider a violinist who practices an hour a day using a cello bow. She won't ever perfect violin playing that way and probably won't even perfect violin/cello-bow playing because the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 24, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
As I write this, it is one day after returning from a family vacation to California. We spent two days driving (one there, one back), one day at California Adventure, one day at the beach, one day having devotional and seeing local sites, and another at Disneyland....
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 24, 2013 | for Spirit
A couple of months ago—when I was scolding boys for slobbering over skanky girls—SilverRain said something that has come repeatedly to my mind: Alison, it is true that men are attracted to women, and this isn't per se bad. What is bad is when that attraction that men...
