When I first started with Serendipity, one of the things I was most excited about was getting back to my long lost love of the written word. I used to love writing; I loved writing poems, stories, nightly in my journal. There was something about it: Sometimes, I could...
Recent Blog Articles
Get Your Financial Ducks in a Row
During a recent Inforum Affinity Group activity, I learned that even though I'm an adult and have been living on my own—and paying my own bills—for years, sometimes I need to tackle financial lessons like a little girl. At the end of the month, even if your dollars...
Snow Day Back-Up Plan
As kids, we loved the prospect of a snow day. I can still remember the thrill of getting to fall back to sleep on a blustery morning, then spending the entire day doing anything but going to school. But now, with a daughter of my own, snow days aren't so exciting....
It’s Not Impossible to Live Debt-Free
As a recent college graduate, I am finding that keeping up with paying the bills and affording gas and food is a lot to handle on a small budget income. But it is nothing like those I know who have student loans to pay off as well. Taught from a young age, we...
Forward!
In January 2012, I wrote a blog about selecting ONE word as a theme for the upcoming year. Sixty percent of people don’t follow through on their New Year’s resolutions anyway, so why not try something new, right? Serendipity Media's word for 2012 was DELIVER! We had...
Rethinking, Reconsidering, Redirecting … Re-frustration.
When I went to college, I was undecided in a major and, frankly, my career path in general. It just seemed like such a big decision to choose what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, because, in reality, it was easier to ask what I did NOT want to do with it. My...
When is “Good Enough” Good Enough?
Greatness. Success. We all aspire to it. And this aspiration is very easily reflected to our children. But is there a time and place for “good enough”? I was raised with a dad that was fine with “good enough” and a mom who wasn’t. To my mom, it was a cop out. To my...
Angela Brown ‘Likes’ This: Facebook Etiquette Do’s and Don’ts
The funny thing about Facebook friends is that they are not always the type of real-life friends we might normally surround ourselves with. It could be a bittersweet friendship; one that could be full of excitement to read the next post from one friend or one that you...
Angela Brown ‘Likes’ This: Facebook Etiquette Do’s and Don’ts
The funny thing about Facebook friends is that they are not always the type of real-life friends we might normally surround ourselves with. It could be a bittersweet friendship; one that could be full of excitement to read the next post from one friend or one that you...
A Year in Review
It's been nearly a year since West Michigan Woman launched online. This time last December, the office was abuzz with preparations. There were in-depth discussions about the font, the color scheme, and the layout we would use to give the website the aesthetic we...