Category: <span>Soften Saturdays</span>

Soften Saturday: If I Wasn’t Afraid

November 15, 2014 By Johnna 10 Comments

Before I dive into this week’s Soften Saturday, I wanted to thank all of you who joined me last week in my Compliment Challenge. It challenged me to find ways to compliment friends without mentioning their appearance. It also made me much more aware of how many non-appearance compliments I am the recipient of every…

The Challenge of NaBloPoMo

November 9, 2014 By Johnna 9 Comments

Maybe you’ve noticed I’m posting a lot more than usual. I’m participating in NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month. I’ll be sharing a post every single day this month. Today, the beginning of week two, I had a realization about the challenge of NaBloPoMo. I don’t enjoy living my life online. I am craving authenticity, contact…

Soften Saturday: Compliments

November 8, 2014 By Johnna 8 Comments

I have a challenge for you this week, Sweet Readers. But first, how it came to be… This week while running errands I ran into a friend I haven’t seen for about a year. We spent a few minutes catching up in the aisle of a store. Her first comment to me was, “You look…

Soften Saturday: National Blog Posting Month

November 1, 2014 By Johnna 4 Comments

Today is the first day of an entire month of daily blog posts from me. Yes, one post a day. Every single day. Once daily. For a whole month. Thirty days. Oh, good grief. What have I gotten myself into?!? So how is that a Soften Saturday topic, you ask? Well, let me explain…

Soften Saturday: WTH was Renee Zellweger Thinking?

October 25, 2014 By Johnna 9 Comments

Unless you live under a very large rock or deep within a cave, you’ve seen all of the media chatter this week about Renee Zellweger’s new look. The assumptions that she had plastic surgery, the pointed comments that she looks older than when she was last seen, the comments that she is unrecognizable. I read…

Soften Saturday: Overworked and Overwhelmed

October 18, 2014 By Johnna 6 Comments

Well, hello there, fans of Soften Saturday! It’s been awhile. I took a break from writing Soften Saturday posts every Saturday because, well, I was Overworked and Overwhelmed. In addition to writing here, I also manage the social media for my site and my other business, teach cooking classes, coach folks new to dietary restrictions…