by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 28, 2013 | Communication, DiscoveRING
Has your wife every told you to “MAN UP?” Well, my wife basically told me that yesterday. And then she looked at our daughter to cosign. I didn’t say much. Well, you see, I recently came into contact with some poison ivy. And let’s just...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 27, 2013 | MentoRING, Raising Kids
My seven year-old son and his team won the first tournament he’d ever played in last summer. This year our team started right where we left off. We won the first five games of the season. We were all thinking…repeat! Unfortunately that isn’t how...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 26, 2013 | Communication, PerseveRING
Last night I stayed up and watched the first few episodes of Scandal (on DVD) with my wife. I began watching the series with her before the last season ended. I’ve caught some of the social media conversation when new episodes were still on. People are...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 24, 2013 | Faith, ProspeRING
If you were born before 1990 you are probably very familiar with the “blue pill and red pill” analogy used in the title of this post. This analogy was made famous in the film The Matrix. Over the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a choice...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 22, 2013 | Money, RestoRING
Milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish. For many, that’s the weekly grocery list or ingredients for a special dish. For my family, it’s the 6 ingredients which we must keep far away from our toddler. I learned of his food allergies at the tender...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Jun 18, 2013 | Dating, DiscoveRING
If I wasn’t officially considered a real blogger, I am now! I have been invited to my first ‘official’ Twitter Viewing Party. This Wednesday (tomorrow night) the party and season premiere of The Soul Man, kicks off. The Soul Man is a sitcom...