By: Kara Stevens
by Michelle Jackson I love blogging because you get to connect with some of the most passionate, thoughtful people. I connected with Michelle of The Shop My Closet Project via her comments on Fabulous N’ Frugal. Her thoughts were so poignant and well written that I had to reach out. I now follow her blog.
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By: Kara Stevens
by Laurén Doamekpor I know none of us are strangers to stress. As a PhD student, I have had more than my share of stress, both chronic and acute ranging from crazy deadlines, fears about the job market, being broke (like, really broke, for the past 4 years), concerns about doing everything well yet still
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By: Kara Stevens
Liz, a fellow exchange student—whose face I cannot now recall—sorta kinda changed my life… She introduced me to a woman who would later serve as the resident mentor in my head. Liz and I walked alongside a larger crowd, on a dusty road, back to the international hostel where we had all dormed as foreign
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By: Kara Stevens
I was at the birthday dinner for one of my friends earlier this month. It was a beautiful image: laughter, children, and sisterhood—all that good stuff we need to make it in this world. I was having a good time. A new mother and social worker sat across the table rocking her baby in her
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By: Kara Stevens
Ever been around someone and their exuberance is contagious? You want to talk to them, learn from them, or be like them. That is because their “abundance tank” is full. This is not to say their life is perfect but they have a way of making life look breezy, easy, and juicy. On the other
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By: Kara Stevens
by Norissa Williams A psychologist friend of mine—who I have increasingly come to admire for his tenacity—was sharing a bit of the first phase of his career development journey with me. One blind to the behind-the-scenes lives of pre-tenured professors—in tenure track positions—might not imagine how real the pressure is. While it isn’t quite the
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By: Kara Stevens
Ever just been tired? Like you want to press “Reset” on your life? You want to do something different, something that you feel that you were born to do. But are afraid to do it???? Kanysha, my friend, aspiring novelist, and author of “5 Ways To Be Smart About Being Dumb” here on Fabulous
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By: Kara Stevens
by Norissa Williams “I’m going to save for the down payment of a house.” “I’m going to build a six-month emergency fund.” “I’m going to lose 20 pounds.” And so goes the goals we set for ourselves… If I asked you to look at these goals with a critical eye, could you see the self-
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By: Kara Stevens
by Kanysha Burton Are you a smart person? Do you find yourself watching TV or reading a book and saying things like, I could have written that? This is the kind of thing smart people say all the time. Ten years from now they’ll be watching a different show, reading a different book and saying the
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By: Kara Stevens
When I look back on my childhood, I think I have always known what I wanted to do or be. I wanted to be a business woman, a writer, a model, citizen of the world, and a talk show host. But somewhere between my second grade teacher telling me that my writing was not good
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