I’ll have a double helping of upbeat spirituality – hold the dogma!

Reading back over some of my past blogs, I was reminded of one of my all time favorites.  Given that the topic is so prevalent again, today, and I have so many new readers, I wanted to bring it out of hiding, and into the forefront again.  Enjoy!
Reprinted from August 17, 2008 by cantorballard
On the heels [...]

Traveling with a ketubah? Read this first!

I’m happy to re-print an article written by Daniel Sroka, the amazing artist from ModernKetubah.com.
I work with so many Destination Brides, and I know that so many brides must encounter this challenge when they are getting ready to travel for their weddings.
If you are in the ketubah market, I highly recommend Daniel’s work, as an [...]

Where did summer go??

My biggest challenge this year has been to maintain any consistency in my writing.  I seem to get really inspired to write, and post a ton of blogs at one time, and then I get so busy, that every time I go to write, I am wiped out clean of any inspiration to be creative, [...]

My Someday Syndrome interview with Alex Fayle..

My friend, Alex Fayle, is a great motivator and a true inspiration.  He takes things we all struggle with, and breaks them down into really understandable language.  I wanted to give his interview a try, and see what I came up with, and he just published it today.  Now that it’s a few weeks  later, [...]

FINALLY got my Jim & Jade videos straightened out

For anyone who kept telling me that my video links were all linking to the same one, I finally got the links straight from CBS4.!
These were from last summer, when Jim & Jade were doing a Monday morning segment, called “In Your Faith”.
Unfortunately, it was cancelled, but I really had fun doing the segments.  Click [...]

Let me introduce myself!

Up until now, you might have known me as Cantor Debbi Ballard, or Debbi, or even Cantor Debbi.  Well, I have an alter ego you may not know, and might not have even guessed existed.  Lots of people read my Facebook page, and see all the great things I am constantly doing, and they would [...]

Check out my upcoming guest appearance!

I am so excited!  Todd, from Soul Solutions Healing Group just emailed me to let me know that my blog and website are going to be featured on their site tomorrow!  I have really become a constant follower of his blog, because every time I drop in, the entry of the day or the week [...]

1000 Mitzvahs

My friend, Linda, is wrapping up a very important project.  I know I have mentioned her here, and she is certainly on my blogroll, but in honor of her 1000th Mitzvah, I needed to send out a reminder.
Linda, who lives in Portland, Oregon,  decided to perform 1000 mitzvahs in honor of her father’s memory.  For [...]

Today’s economy – A Curse or A Gift?

I was just reading Meg’s blog, A Practical Wedding, and loved one of her most recent posts.
First, she shared a new perspective on the glass breaking in  a Jewish wedding, and that was that an old Moroccan saying was related to the broken glass of a Jewish wedding, in that “A difficult beginning is a [...]

Me, nervous?

Heck no.  Why should I be nervous?
Because tomorrow I am officiating the biggest wedding in my career?  For a family known throughout the world for RATING people?  Well, yeah, ok…I’m nervous.  I didn’t say I wasn’t confident, but when you know that people who write about what people do for a living are judging you, [...]

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