Meghan Kosar
I love the city. I live in Chicago with my husband, Brad, and desire to be a city-dweller forever. I love the city because of it forces community. It perfectly illustrates the contrast between what is ugly and what is beautiful in the world. I am 27 and work for a faith-based non-profit helping build and develop community. I feel that people have a strong and instinctual desire to know people and be known. Essentially, people want to matter. I spend my spare time fighting between sarcasm and satire, reading everything I can get my hands on, shopping, or enjoying a cup of coffee/glass of wine with friends. Blogging for Every Monday Matters allows me to combine three of my passions: writing, expressing my opinion, and helping others recognize their potential to change the world.
Seven Things
How often do you look back on your day and have trouble remembering the whirlwind you just experienced? I know I can have trouble recalling what I have accomplished, who I have impacted, or what I have learned in a given day. I’ve packed my life full. And for me with fullness often comes shallow [...]
Generation Gap or Not?
Last night I saw Billy Joel & Elton John in concert. It was an amazing show: two legends pounding on the ivories surrounded by the backdrop of so much history in Wrigley Field. Seriously, at one point I looked at my friend next to me and declared that I was having a “once in a [...]
Make Good Choices
My husband and I have a phrase we often say to each other. It is common for one of us to say to the other, “Make good choices” as we leave for the day. It started out as a joke…poking fun at a phrase that a dad whose kids I babysat for would say to [...]
Thoughts on Friendship
This past holiday weekend I was fortunate enough to spend the time away on a trip. A group of six went up to Door County, Wisconsin. A great little getaway…where we could entirely unplug (I am not kidding you– I went four days without cell phone coverage, email, twitter, etc. I haven’t done that in [...]
Summertime
Summer has come to the city of Chicago once again! Thank goodness! I love Chicago, but if people who live here are honest we only put up with the winter months (the majority of the year) because the summer months redeem them. When June hits it’s as if an awakening occurs. Suddenly there are people [...]
Finishing Strong
Growing up my dad would drill into me the importance of finishing what I started. And not only that, but to finish strong. It’s a principle that was taught over and over to me in school, at church, and in life. Yet, rarely have I seen it demonstrated well. Sure there are the one off [...]
Fresh Start
I always loved the beginning of the school year. I loved picking out school supplies. I loved how all the notebooks and folders were fresh and new and blank. Each year was a fresh start. I was going to study harder. My penmanship was going to look nicer with the help of my shiny new [...]
Potential In Each New Day
I was driving home from dinner a few days ago when all of the sudden traffic stopped. Patience is not one of my strengths when it comes to driving, traffic, and really most things, so I was already poised to lay on the horn. From what I could see there was no reason for the [...]
Traffick Free
There are more slaves in the world today than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade (Gary Haugen). Shocking. I know. Often referred to as human trafficking, it’s estimated that there are 27 million people enslaved around the world.
This past week a group called Traffick Free held an awareness week [...]
I Choose to Dance
I was running late. I was running late and I was extremely irritated. I was mad at myself. I was very mad at the cab driver who seemed to be driving below the speed limit just to make me even more late. And I was mad that nothing was fitting into the plan I had set for the day.
I [...]
