Jessie Voigts's Blog, page 50
February 24, 2023
Why Choose IB? 10 Reasons to Study the IB Diploma Abroad
February 20, 2023
Music's threads of hope and resilience
News of natural disasters comes from Turkey and Syria and New Zealand. There’s the ongoing war in Ukraine and strife in Myanmar and Ethiopia. There are shootings, arguments, food insecurity, racism, political division around the globe, the ongoing effects of climate change, anger in public and private life...
All of which can make for a rather bleak scenario. Musicians live through these things, too. Often, there are threads of hope and resilience to be found in what th...
February 16, 2023
Read This: 100 Things to Do in the North Georgia Mountains Before You Die
If you've not been yet to the North Georgia Mountains, get ready to be inspired. Renowned travel writer Karon Warren has a new book out, entitled 100 Things to Do in the North Georgia Mountains Before You Die. It's a must-read for any travel, culture, and food lover.
In her book, she covers food and drink, music and entertainment, sports and recreation (did you know there is a place called Mulberry Gap?), culture and history, and shopping and fashion (including ...
February 13, 2023
Write your own story—then go live it
Travel has always been my vice. Throw in dark chocolate chips, avocado, yoga, beach days, and it’s pretty much me in a nutshell. These days, we can add water bottle stickers to that list, so when Live a Great Story showed up on my radar, they had me at stickers.
I went on my first international voyage at twenty. It was a three-week group tour to Israel that officially hit me with the travel bug. One of many catalysts, that trip drove my st...
February 10, 2023
Travel with Awe and Wonder: New Found Love
This summer, my husband and I undertook a move. A relocation from Massachusetts to Arizona has been undertaken by others, no doubt. We decided to make things a little more interesting than a direct route. We headed north. Our circuitous route is winding us through Newfoundland, Portugal, and North Carolina. When one would think to take the southerly route from the Carolina’s to Arizona in the winter months, we will make Bugs Bunny’s famous right turn at Albuquerque to g...
February 6, 2023
Through the Eyes of an Educator: A Re-emergence
Life is messy. If only we knew that as teenagers, perhaps we wouldn’t have been so hard on ourselves about not knowing so many things—like what major we want, what path we wish to take, where we want to live, how we can best help make the world better, what we want to be when we get older, how much money we ‘should’ have, and all of the zillion other questions that rattle around our minds once we begin to think about how we might ‘fit’ in the world at large.
Depending...
February 3, 2023
Why You Need Big Wall Décor in Your Home
Color, beauty, art...what more can we ask for in our homes—and lives? One more thing:
Make it big!
I recently discovered Big Wall Décor, a fantastic company focused on bringing affordable large-scale art to everyone. Read our interview with founder Nick Ford to get inspired!
We absolutely ADORE our latest Big Wall Décor addition to our home: Salty Gradient, by photographer Thomas Fotomas. His photography is extraordinary...and I can see decorating an entire home with...
February 1, 2023
Hollyland: A Feel-Good Novel for All and a Must-Read for Every Artist and Art Educator
Patricia Leavy, one of our favorite authors, is back at it with a novel I couldn’t put down. In fact, Hollyland is the novel we’ve been hoping Leavy, an acclaimed arts researcher, would write. You see, in addition to being a prolific novelist with an unmistakable voice in women’s fiction, Dr. Leavy is also a world-renowned scholar. There’s no hyperbole here. She started receiving lifetime achievement awards at the age of 35! To date she’s received career awards fr...
January 30, 2023
Royal Holiday Vacation Club: Vacation Clubs To Join In 2023
2023 is here, and many are making plans to travel this year. There's no better way than joining Royal Holiday Vacation Club or other best vacation clubs you have researched and weighed their benefits.
Joining a vacation club allows you to interact with like-minded people as you enjoy what the world has to offer each year. More so, it is cheaper than spending money on vacations often and guarantees privacy during your vacation time.
Are you ready to know the best...
January 27, 2023
Can I Become a Great Leader?
If you're new to the business world, you might wonder if it's possible to become a great leader. After all, don't studies suggest that leaders are born and not made? Not quite, since there are many ways you can become the leader your company and team needs through an online course leadership! In addition, below are some of the many ways you can become a leader and how this translates into value.
This might seem like one of the most simple and ob...
