About The Weiss Life

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I'm just a forty-something Florida girl. I love my husband, my girls, my pups, my friends & family, music, activity and adventure (exploring locally and traveling globally!). I believe in the power of words, an unlimited potential, the possibility of change, and the need for people to JUST DANCE, GIVE GRACE, GET OUTSIDE and SLOW the F- DOWN.

Beyond that, I'm a licensed therapist. My previous work history included brand strategy, design and copywriting. I do that all freelance now.

In addition, I have leanings to homeschool my kiddos (they’re in a hybrid program currently), and I post about that process SOMETIMES here AND here.

Jill-of-all-trades or maybe none at all? You decide. :)

Disclaimer: This is my personal blog. My mind dump. It's messy. I'm messy. I claim no authority on anything (or anyone) BUT myself. The blog reflects that. It's often a catch-all for random and sometimes a soapbox for specifics. I don't take myself too seriously, so I beg you to do the same!

The story behind the blog:

When I began blogging waaayyy back in the day (think late 1990’s), I did so under the title “Ordered Chaos.” That matters now only because it STILL represents the head & heart space out of which I share …

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins:

GLORY be to God for dappled things—    
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;    
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;    
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;    
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.    
 
All things counter, original, spare, strange;    
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)    
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;    
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: 
                  Praise him.

Life is a dappled beauty — perfectly imperfect. We, God's children, are chaos, full of potential and designed as such, for much. God makes us unique, offers us a part in an eternal story and gives us a chance to write something beautiful and meaningful, even in the midst of our/their mess. We are all ordered chaos ... and, for me, that truth is freedom. Freedom to be me.

Favorites Things:

  • Honesty

  • Country music

  • Miniature dachshunds

  • Smooth jazz

  • Horses

  • Enneagram (3w4 right here)

  • Apple products

  • Boats and lakes

  • Self-awareness

  • Brand consistency

  • Sunshine and serotonin

  • Hot showers

  • Cold beer

  • Walks in the woods

  • HRT for perimenopause

  • Running in the rain

  • American literature

  • Vacation

  • Houses and Interior Design