

5 ways to be a good networker
It pays to know people. I've experienced this first hand. This may be naive, but I like to think that people are generally good and they...


We need more tampons at the food pantry
A colleague asked me to fill in for him for a few months at his volunteer job. It was his shift serving at the local food pantry one day...


Tomato Cucumber Orzo Salad
I love my container garden. I visit it almost every day in hopes that I will discover a new piece of something. It's oddly rewarding. My...


Simplify Your Life. A Book Review and a Personal Experience.
I learn the most from the everyday people in my life. As an ongoing project, I will have guest posts from featured Everyday People about...


Office Makeover. Creating an Inspiring Space.
I sit at my desk a lot. I have lots of computer work to do, phone calls to make, emails to monitor, websites that need attention. I am...


Meal Planning for the Week
I hate to admit that summer is coming to an end. A sure sign of this is when my husband goes back to work (he works in education). Let's...


Three adjectives. What are yours?
Imagine that people have to describe you using three adjectives, and you can't be in the room. Why can't you be in the room? It's because...


Embracing the Princess
There is a lot written about the "big bad princess" obsession. I always wondered if my little three-year-old princess, or as I have...


60 seconds of my life.
So many of you can relate. I know this. Sometimes I just need people to laugh and relate with me. It just makes it better. This stuff...


I can't believe she said that!
She has said the most annoying, hurtful things to me. I have banished her from my life, but she inevitable reappears. It's exhausting....








































