Category: 10 Things I’ve Learned in my First Year in Vegas

  • What Happens in Vegas Should Not Stay In Vegas

    What Happens in Vegas Should Not Stay In Vegas

    In the years before I moved to Las Vegas, every time that I heard the phrase, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”, I would laugh it off as a just another phrase people use to not take responsibility for their own choices. I never intended to visit Vegas, let alone live in Vegas, mostly…

  • Curiosity Unlocks Impact

    Curiosity Unlocks Impact

    We all have boxes that we put people in. We meet someone and within seconds we have made a judgment on who they are and we begin to put them in boxes.  Age, race, gender, clothes, haircut, education, language — all of those influence our categorizing people. Most of the time we do these things…

  • People are People

    People are People

    When we told people we were moving to Las Vegas, we routinely received the response, “Well people in Las Vegas really need Jesus.”  Many times there was an underlying insinuation that people in Las Vegas were different, were maybe more sinful. We had never thought about people’s biases and how they would affect how they…

  • Learn to Receive

    Learn to Receive

    Full admission, I have a hard time receiving. It is always been difficult for me to feel ok, receiving a compliment, to feel accomplished when getting an award, to believe that people are appreciative of my investment. I am not sure where it began, but I know that I struggle to receive affirmation. This has…

  • Personal Health Matters

    Personal Health Matters

    This past November we were on a plane heading back from the Midwest. I started to feel a little  off about an hour into the flight. Gradually my head started hurting, my stomach began to feel upset, I was getting dizzy.  By the time the plane landed I had a full blown migraine and was…