Monica Hill,'s Blog

This time next week, I will be blogging from Alaska. Two of my sisters and I are traveling there to visit one of my daughters and to begin to discover a state we’ve never seen before. We’ve had several dinner meetings along the way, mapping out where we want to go, making Airbnb reservations, boo...

In yesterday’s edition of “What in the world is Monica going to write next?”, I took you to a tree named Hercules, where my Girl Scouts learned about being accepted and being rejected. So much of what I’ve been able to learn through volunteering comes back full circle in my life. As adults, we’re...

In a Girl Scout camp in Colorado there lives a tree named Hercules. As the name suggests, the tree is massive and draws you toward it. Because of its magnetism, we designed a program with Hercules at the center. We chose four girls from the group who each stood at a point about 10 feet from the t...

This blog is short and simple.Just as the Title implies, pick up the phone and call someone that you've discovered here on Active Rain.Though I was with a client at the time my phone rang, when I finished up and checked my voicemail, there was a message from a fellow Active Rainer, encouraging me...

We sat at the table together, these five other women and myself, as part of a Girl Scout Cookie Sale training session. Hosted by our GS Council, the event was designed to get us all familiar with any new procedures, forms, and of course, any new cookies. I’ve been a Girl Scout for more years than...

Loan officers and Realtors are getting more and more creative as we strive to increase our client base. Leading into the weekend, it’s normal for me to get text messages and emails from loan officers informing me that they’re available for questions and to run pre-approvals for my clients on Satu...

Things are swirling these days. It feels like we’re in a real estate blender where people are tossing in all kinds of things that shouldn’t be in there. Emotions are amping up the responses that I’m seeing flying around on social media, as well as in classes and zoom sessions that I’ve been part ...

During the summers between college, I was on a paid holiday in the Colorado Rockies. Okay, okay… to be more precise, I had a summer job, but boy, did it feel like a paid vacation. Growing up in a family as one of seven children, we camped a lot. One summer, my father had banked his vacation and w...

I hope you don’t have to battle your inner self like I do at times. Someone drops the ball or responds in a way that doesn’t fit my thoughts and I feel the snarky response inside me rising. I can feel the red flag starting to fly!I just read a post by Active Rainer, Lew Corcoran, today about the ...

As I was leaving church this morning, my sisters and I stayed in the parking lot, long after everyone else had left, continuing our conversation. You would think we never see each other, the way we can talk, but the communication between us always flows like an unending river. Our thoughts today ...