Deanna’s 7 Sanity-Saving Business Travel Tips
My husband is a travel expert. In addition to being a pastor, he owns a travel agency, Best Memories Travel, and is a licensed travel agent. I'm not going to pretend to be the expert on that. If you're looking to book a trip -- especially a cruise -- there's no one...
You Need to Be Alone
(Whether You Know it Or Not!)
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) One day I was reading a meme on Facebook that said something to the effect of, "If you can walk into a restaurant and eat a meal alone and be comfortable,...
How to Qualify for Mentorship
Many people believe a leader in their life such as a boss or a pastor.is obligated to mentor them. Not true! Your boss is not required to mentor you. That's like guacamole at Chipotle...it's extra! Consider yourself extraordinarily blessed if a leader decides to...
7 Ways to Free Yourself
from a Controlling Leader
Controlling leaders are out of style...not to mention ungodly! I've heard it said that you can control, or you can lead...but you can't do both. I believe this. Because to control is not really to lead. The greatest leaders know that their role is not to control, it...
How an Agnostic Helps Me
Be a Better Minister
Laura Dennis and I first met in the blogging community. Both of us are writers, her being a popular adoption, adoptee, and parenting writer, and me being a writer in several genres including Christian living as well as adoptee issues. Since we've been friends we have...
3 Reasons a Dog Means the World
My holiday break wasn't as it normally is -- a rest -- because our dog Manny (a four-year-old English bulldog) got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized several times. He swallowed a ham bone a few days before Christmas, and it messed him up, big time. He needed...
Invite deanna to speak at your event!
Deanna is invited to return and speak at many of the same places time and again because the result has been an overwhelmingly positive experience with lives changed, and people encouraged. She would love to come to your area.
