10 Playful and Inexpensive Date Night Ideas
Since when did life, relationships, and fun have to be so serious? Our expectations can make date night feel like work. It's time to take...
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8 Ideas That Are Hurting Your Success
You've got goals and ambitions and you're ready to make them happen. Here are some seemingly benign ideas that could be getting in your...
10-Minutes Now, For a Much Better Thanksgiving Dinner (Next Year)
No matter which holiday gathering(s) you host, there's a 10-minute step most people miss, which makes things infinitely easier the next...
Revelations From My Bedroom
Today, I'm going to let you in on a guilty pleasure that happens in my bedroom. Most Sundays, at 8:50am, my phone starts playing the song...
One Way to Find More Time
My daughter, Skye, stuck out her foot and plopped it on my lap. She was laying on her white daybed, covered by a pink fleece blanket with...
Time's Forked Tongue
It’s easy to get caught in the hamster wheel of life; running faster and faster just to stay standing. I think everyone falls prey at...
A (Mostly) Reusable Easter
Easter baskets were not a thing at my house when I was a kid. Easter wasn’t much of a thing. We were Seventh Day Adventists and Easter...
The True Value and Purpose of a Family Meeting
"Mom, Iris is about to throw up," said my daughter Skye from the living room. I was in the kitchen, standing in front of the coffee...
Five Days Locked in My Winter Palace
I cracked my eyes open, just a bit. My bedroom was still dark with all the curtains closed, but I could see a pencil thin line of bright...
Productivity, Rodeo-Style
Four opened containers of capers. Two jars of sauerkraut, each with 1/2 a serving left swirling around the bottom of the clear brine....
Are you willing to love anyway?
Congratulations on completing a wild ride around the sun. I was looking through the articles I wrote last year and my first one in...
The Dark Side of Santa
I have two primary tenets when it comes to parenting... The first is: trust yourself. This is the best advice my mom ever gave me. She...
Saving Your Holiday Traditions
Holidays are sweet benchmarks for acknowledging the passing of time and seasons; they can be excuses to let loose and breakaway from the...
Life is unpredictable. Now what?
May my body not retire this terra firma without first embracing the full essence of life and it’s generous, vibrant offerings! Let me not...
The Gift of Giving-Up
Surrender. I always hated that word. It grated in my ears and reverberated in my bones as hopelessness. It sounded like giving-up,...
How Many Opportunities Have You Missed?
Have you ever camped overnight in a handmade snow shelter? Me either, but my son has! And one of the lessons he's learned will help him...
True Love
At the root of everything, behind the curtains, under the doubt, there is always love. It’s ready to drift to the surface if given half a...
Are you prepared or scared?
“Here they are,” my husband said as he laid the folder holding our wills on the dining room table. The piece of paper with my hand...
Would the world be better off without you?
“Do you believe them? Do you believe that you’re strong?" I asked my 12 year old daughter. She was sitting cross legged on her bed,...
Who would you be, if not you?
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t carry a more perfect version of themselves in their head, including me! If I could just… When I… If only...