The So What Now What blog is one year old today, which means a gift for one of you! [Contest closed]

ByChristie Hawkes

Blog anniversary

Today is this blog’s one year anniversary! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for a full year now. Thank you for hanging in there with me and for all of your kind, encouraging comments.

In celebration of this momentous occasion 🙂 I will be sending one of you a gift. Today is the last day to earn entries in the drawing. Just comment on this post or share it on Facebook or Twitter. I’ll announce the winner in Tuesday’s post.

Since you’ll be commenting anyway (for that extra entry), I’d love to hear what you’d like me to write about. The general theme for this blog is finding direction during life’s transitions, but as you know if you’ve been following, I’m pretty flexible with that broad description. I can make almost any topic fit.

Also, if you have stories or guidance you’d like to share, I’d be happy for guest posts.

Christie Hawkes

Christie is a certified wellness coach, author, and retired professional communicator who blogs about life transitions, wellness, mindfulness, and anything else that answers the question "So what? Now what?"
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8 Comments

  1. Holy Moly! It’s already been a year? They grow so fast! 😉

    I would love a post on how you stay so calm and rational in the face of stress and craziness. I always stoop to trying to yell the craziness into submission. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t work very well…

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    1. Thanks for the suggestion. To be honest, I’ve had a breakdown or two in private, but I do have some techniques for not giving in entirely to the craziness. I’ll do my best to articulate them in an upcoming post. I love you!

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  2. Hooray for a year of blogging! I have sure loved reading your blog posts and I feel like it helps me stay more connected with you. I should comment more so it’s a two-way street.
    A relevant post for me would be about how to stay in touch with family as we get older and our lives take us in different directions (or states, or countries). Especially with having a new baby, I feel like I’m so out of touch to free level I used to be.
    Love you!
    Also, I forgot we have a birthday party for Kevin’s niece today… So I’ll check with you next weekend and see if you end up going to Hawkes Landing.

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    1. Thank you for the kind words and the post suggestion. As you know, I often post about things I want to improve in my own life that I hope will be helpful to others as well, and staying in touch with my extended family no matter how busy life gets is one of those things.

      Kiss that sweet baby for me!

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