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Carrots 2020 Small Business Gift Guide (with coupon codes and giveaway!)

November 24, 2020 By Haley 2 Comments

In 2016 I created my first Christmas gift guide post, so this is the 5th anniversary of the Carrots gift guide! Readers have requested a new guide each year and over time I've intentionally pivoted to including ONLY small businesses. This year we've all seen restaurants and storefronts close due to the pandemic. 2020 has hit small businesses so hard! This year more than ever it's clear that we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christmas, Community Tagged With: christmas gift guide, gift guide, shop small, small business guide

Beyond Magnolia: The Carrots Guide to Waco

November 5, 2019 By Haley 8 Comments

My family has lived in Waco a total of 9 years (5 in the college years and then 4 years since our return to Texas!). Since we first moved here in 2004, so much has changed. Waco has recovered from decades of struggle and grown by leaps and bounds during our time here. It has become a destination town! I get asked all the time for recommendations of what to do during a trip to Waco and now with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Our Home, Travel Tagged With: Baylor, drinks, Magnolia Silos, restaurants, shopping, sights, Texas travel, travel, Waco

Why You Should Read This Book by a Guy Who Sat and Talked to People at McDonald’s: A Review of Dignity by Chris Arnade

July 15, 2019 By Haley 2 Comments

If I could suggest only two books about the current landscape of America right now they would be Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson about our prison system and the recently released Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade.  I first heard of Arnade from my husband, Daniel, who started following him on Twitter ages ago. “Have you heard of the guy who sits and talks to people who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Community, Culture Tagged With: back row america, book review, chris arnade, dignity

What Bakonzo Naming Conventions Taught Me about the Gift of Siblings

April 10, 2019 By Haley 7 Comments

Give a warm Carrots welcome to one of my favorite people in the universe, my dear friend of 18 years and fellow writer, Katherine Grimm Bowers! I twisted her arm into writing a post for you for National Sibling Day.-Haley We were gathered around the bonfire, and our hosts had detected a trend. They couldn't believe it. We were, one and all, Brits and Americans alike, firstborn or maybe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Community, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: bakonzo, family, katherine grimm bowers, names, national sibling day, siblings

The Triumph and Necessity of Festivity: Why We Trick-or-Treat

October 31, 2018 By Haley 20 Comments

Why We Trick-or-Treat

To Halloween or to not Halloween? While Halloween began as All Hallows Eve, the vigil before All Hallows (All Saints Day), and certainly has Catholic roots, whether to participate in cultural celebrations of a now secularized Halloween is controversial in Christian circles. In the Protestant circles I grew up in, “Fall Festival” parties or “Reformation Day” parties were the order of the day. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, Culture, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, festivity, halloween, trick-or-treat

Launch Day for My Book is TODAY! Here’s what you need to know.

September 7, 2018 By Haley 3 Comments

The day has finally arrived! My book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture, is officially available! LAUNCH DAY IS HERE. The writing process to publishing date took about 18 months, but it’s been much longer in the making because it’s the result of life-changing experiences and many, many late night conversations with my husband Daniel and dear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Community, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: becoming saints, simple living, The Grace of Enough, throwaway culture

Your Brain Only Has Room to Care About 150 People (And other things I’m learning about friendship)

April 23, 2018 By Haley 8 Comments

Before I had any "big kids" and life at home was just babies and toddlers, it was difficult for me. As an extrovert I really thrive on adult interaction and I wasn't getting it. Making connections of any kind, whether meeting up with friends or just connecting with people on the internet helped keep me afloat. But in the past couple of years, I’ve felt an inward shift. I’ve been increasingly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: dunbar's number, friendship, personality types

Hey New Bloggers, There’s Room for You! (& How to Create a Mastermind Group)

April 3, 2017 By Haley 31 Comments

Advice for New Bloggers: Start a Mastermind Group!

A week ago I was flying home after a weekend in the Twin Cities where I was speaking at a Catholic women’s blogging conference. I’m not sure why I use jazz hands when I’m speaking but there you are. A lovely venue (there are some seriously gorgeous Victorian homes in St. Paul!), thoughtful workshops, good food, great swag bags, and beautiful fellow speakers Nell and Laura really made it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Community Tagged With: advice for new blogging, blogging, community online, mastermind groups

Want to Know Yourself Better? Jane Austen Is Here to Help.

March 15, 2016 By Haley 26 Comments

Do You Know Yourself? Maybe Jane Austen Can Help.

image: Jennifer Ehle in ‘Pride and Prejudice’/Image © BBC Every time I re-read Miss Austen’s novels (ahem, every single year), I find something I hadn’t noticed before.  I uncover another layer with each return to her works and this year what I’m most drawn to is the theme of self-knowledge. I’m not alone in considering Austen to be a philosopher and she follows in the footsteps of the ancients … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Community Tagged With: emma, jane austen, know thyself, pride and prejudice, self-knowledge

Edel Gathering Recap (Or, that time I had to emcee and had laryngitis)

July 17, 2015 By Haley 15 Comments

Okay. I'm completely overwhelmed with the idea of recapping Edel 2015 because it was a jam-packed whirlwind of awesome. Here's some highlights: I rented a car like a real grown up woman. For real. AND I learned how to use the cruise control. My friend Alyssa and I road tripped it to Charleston, SC on Thursday morning to meet up with my bestie and podcast co-host Christy Isinger Thursday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Community, Faith & Liturgical Living Tagged With: the edel gathering

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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