Category: Life Lessons

  Last night, with my bluetooth in my ear, I was upstairs multi-tasking. Talking to The Boyfriend as he drove home from a visit to see his children, applying make-up, and flipping laundry; I was a flurry of activity as I prepared to go out for the evening. Downstairs I heard the kids laughing, while…

After posting on Monday the idea of creating a New Year’s Resolutions list that is filled with things you are actually excited to do, I came across this image posted on Google +. The list is either sad or funny, depending upon your perspective. Whatever your thoughts, this is an example of what NOT to…

There is an anti-New Year’s Resolution revolution, which is understandable with an 80% failure rate for this tradition of creating long, impossible-to-achieve lists on January 1st. This masochistic activity is not a great start to a new year. Don’t create a list, promising to lose 50 pounds by June; quit your job to create a…

Pamela Redmond Satran wrote a list after her thirtieth birthday of what she wanted to tell younger women. It was a list of what Satran wished she knew before the big 3-0 milestone arrived. It is still wildly popular on the internet and is mistakenly credited to many, including Maya Angelou. Her list originally appeared…

If someone gave me the gift of seeing 12 months into the future last Christmas, I would not have believed what life would look like today. There had been so many difficult challenges and I felt sure I had many more to face in 2011. Late Christmas Eve last year I reflected on the events…

I own this. It comes with me everywhere I go. With almost 200 posts written on this personal blog, it is a topic I have not yet shared. And the reason I have avoided the topic is simple. Because I haven’t owned it. Even though it has been with me for the last seven years.…