Posts for Small Hands Big Ideas


Divine, earned.

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
May 16, 2012 at 9:49 am
A fight isn’t the end of the world. An argument doesn’t mean it’s over. Gentleness is godliness. Kindness is strength. Patience is powerful. This knowledge comes ... (more)

Tolerance

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
May 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Each year that I grow older, my tolerance lowers. I used to fly with the breeze and care so little about who said what or even people’s actions (toward me). I think in part, ... (more)

The Skeletons In the Closet

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
April 26, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I recently took a week-long trip home via road trip with the man and the pup. Home is quiet, southeast Iowa in the most unusual town in America. I haven’t lived at home ... (more)

Guest Post: How and Where to Begin Your First Startup Via Jun Loayza

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
April 23, 2012 at 10:00 am
Note: Jun has been a longtime blogging friend (we’ve even met in real life at BlogWorld before). While we were recently chatting, I asked him to contribute his thoughts on ... (more)

The Hard Sell

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
April 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm
I was 15. I sat at a mahogany desk, holding the phone in my quivering hand. On the other line was an International customer, interested in buying gemstones. As in rubies and diamonds, ... (more)

ReWork

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
March 23, 2012 at 11:43 am
A lot of what I’ve written about here in the last three years have been related to career and the journey is takes you on, especially as Gen Y where we go through more jobs ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
March 16, 2012 at 11:49 am
And, it’s back. Found some serious goodness recently. So first, I lamented a lot about losing Picnik. Especially for the food blog as it’s photo heavy. I found PicMonkey ... (more)

Birthday

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
March 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Yesterday was my birthday. There has been a tradition that my mom likes to joke about, in which, every year on my birthday I cry. Every since I was probably 5. It’s usually ... (more)

Lucky Duck

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
March 7, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Note: Let’s dust off the ol’ blog, shall we? For the first time in 3+ years on this blog, I haven’t quite found the words (mostly it’s lack of time) to ... (more)

Calming Nerves

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
February 22, 2012 at 11:56 am
You know that feeling? Your stomach leaps into your throat, you feel jittery and you can’t stop wringing your hands. Call it what you will, we all experience nerves or adrenaline ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
February 17, 2012 at 12:16 pm
After 8 days of traveling from San Diego for work last week, to Portland (OR) for fun with favorite girlfriends I’m pretty spent. So spent I’ve been sick at home the ... (more)

Referrals

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
February 9, 2012 at 3:38 pm
I love being in a world where your network of skilled and brilliant friends, become relevant and necessary. I find more and more, having the plethora of skills in your back-pocket ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
February 3, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Snow day! I’m also so excited for Superbowl not so much for the football, but for the food. Yes, I just said that. It’s the second biggest food holiday of the year ... (more)

Tools, Applications, Startups, Goodness

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 30, 2012 at 10:00 am
I tag things on Delicious like it’s my job (please oh please, stay around Delicious). One of my favorite tags are the online, fill-a-need, tools that I discover (and usually ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 27, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Tonight I’m going to the first ever WINTER concert at Red Rocks. Normally they close in the winter and host absolutely epic concerts throughout the summer in their outside ... (more)

Excercising “No”

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 23, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I know, it seems negative but this year, I am learning to say no. I almost always say yes. It is excruciatingly hard for me to say no, moreso in personal relationships and requests, ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 20, 2012 at 12:27 pm
I wish there was a blog post in between last week’s Friday Linky Love and this one, but there isn’t. It’s part of the game. The words haven’t been there ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 13, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Happy Friday everyone! Here are some goodies to send you off into the weekend. Mail Online: PLUS Model Magazine’s Katya Zharkova Cover Highlights Body Image In the Fashion ... (more)

Resolutions

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 10, 2012 at 5:33 pm
As January 1 usually rolls around, I’m coming off a food + family + travel + holiday high (also tiredness) and along with that, I see a multitude of tweets and posts lamenting ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 6, 2012 at 11:59 am
And after a few week hiatus from Friday Linky Love, I’m back. I have never taken a two week break like that from blogging and it felt great. I still love to share and blogging ... (more)

Relation-ship

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
January 3, 2012 at 4:00 pm
I often muse about my teenage and early college years. My choice in men wasn’t totally piss-poor, but the me-now, wouldn’t have been with the men-then. Most of the ... (more)

2011 Milestones: Another Year, My Friends

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
December 19, 2011 at 6:29 pm
This will be my last post of the year. I think I just decided that. I pride myself on posting with frequency, holding myself accountable, finding joy in content, this community ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
December 16, 2011 at 10:00 am
There’s a chance I’m cruising through the sky right now, en route to home! Holidays are cruising up in front of us. The Awl: The Couple Who Marcel The Shell Together rdio: ... (more)

Holiday Happy

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
December 13, 2011 at 7:48 pm
This Friday I leave for home and begin my end-of-year holiday for almost two weeks. I’ll be working from the road a bit, but mostly looking to unwind and spend precious time ... (more)

Friday Linky Love

From Small Hands, Big Ideas
December 9, 2011 at 10:00 am
The Internet just blows me away, sometimes. There’s so much content and when you work on it it’s overwhelming and exciting at the same time. Ironically, as vast as ... (more)