Author Archives: Stylish 🍒

This weekend Cornerstone Ministries held its annual Uncommon Weekend, where instead of attending church, members are the church to the local community. For the first time in the six years that I’ve attended this church, they focused on one community instead of all around. That community was my hometown of Jeannette. Before I go intoContinue reading “Uncommon 2021: Love Your Neighbor”

On this day in 2003, I was beginning the second phase of my college education. That morning we made the drive up I-79 to Slippery Rock University and moved me into my dorm room. I had help from SRU’s welcome team to get all my things into my room. We had lunch at the GroveContinue reading “Arriving at Slippery Rock (18 years ago today)”

It’s time for this week’s Toastmasters Throwback but first I want to share some highlights from this past week. At work this week we had our usual Lowe’s. For Day 2, our supervisor did something different for briefing. She asked us questions pertaining to Lowe’s counting procedures. If we answered the questions right, we eachContinue reading “A Year of Many Firsts”

Tonight Mr. Clougherty and I had our once a month dinner. We decided on Bar Nine this time. We were able to get a seat at the bar even though they prefer reservations. I could see why. This place was packed tonight and that’s a good thing. Restaurants were hit hard last summer during theContinue reading “Stylish and Hungry #7—Bar Nine”

Last night a few of us Toastmasters got together for a potluck dinner at the home of Ron and Sarah. We brought our salads and desserts while they had the main dishes covered. I arrived around 5:30 as did Nate and Laura. Emily and Jing came a little later but when they did, it wasContinue reading “Dinner, Dancing, and Disco”

If 2021 has taught me anything so far, number one is that health is important. Who knows where I’d be or let alone even be here if not for scheduling that doctor’s appointment. Things are a lot better now for me after that health scare. Number two is that people’s opinions don’t matter. This hasContinue reading “I Shattered the Gloss Ceiling”

Today I worked in McCandless and since I was close, I made plans to visit The Block at Northway afterwards. I would check out ULTA since Sara and I are going to shop there in the Fall and make a Target run to buy some makeup. Those experiences I’ll talk about in the following blog.Continue reading “Stylish 👢 and Hungry 🍔 #6–Wahlburgers”

Can you imagine if District 13 covered the whole state of Pennsylvania in this day and age? You would have to delegate responsibility to other Toastmasters and District Leaders, and eventually you have to split the Commonweath up (kind of like what they did with North Carolina (District 37 and District 117). In 1943, theContinue reading “The Keystone District”

This back to school blog is brought to you by Kohl’s, JCPenney, and Giant Eagle (just kidding but I did find some great deals in the circulars that I wanted to share in today’s post. I’ll also talk about my back to school shout-out tradition starting in just over a week as kids go backContinue reading “Back to School Primer”

In December, I went out to dinner with my friends from Ligonier. While sitting down and eating our meal and hanging out, Sara and I caught up (she introduced me to Rob since this was our first time meeting up) and we talked about our favorite shows and fashion. I even got suggestions on whatContinue reading “Jane the Blog”