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We may have transitioned into the Christmas season, but I am still in the spirit of Thanksgiving! So many of us feel over worked and underappreciated, but here’s the good news: you can express [...]

It happened again. You got seated in a restaurant and ten minutes later you are still waiting for service. Then when you finally got your food the dressing was on the salad instead of on the [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ve probably heard about essential oils. They have always been around but in recent years a few large direct sales companies have really brought their [...]

As mom to a 4-year-old boy who cares nothing for the schedule of others and often rises much earlier than I wish he would, there are nights where I just don’t get enough sleep. I hear Will waking [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with voicemail. It means that I don’t always have to take a call, but it also means that when I dial in to get the message I may be about to encounter [...]

I recently finished reading How to Live Like a Millionaire When You’re a Million Short by Marilyn Anderson (Potpourri Books, 2017).  Everyone wants to to live the good life, right? But who [...]

Last month on vacation my husband, my son and I went home to Iowa to visit my mom. Will got to meet some of his cousins, which made for endless entertainment, and for the first time he had ice [...]

It’s no secret that smart phones have transformed our society, changing the way we communicate (texting is king!), the words we use (there’s an app for that!) and how we structure our days (ever [...]

Cell phone etiquette (and cell phone addiction) may seem a foreign concept to those of us who didn’t grow up with a phone in our hand. But more and more of us are becoming slaves to our [...]

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, 2014, by Marie Kondo I recently finished reading this book, which is becoming very popular in the United [...]