Our boys are 7 and 10, so we still play plenty of board games at our house. There’s very little I enjoy about board games because so much of what happens is decided by chance (not to mention all the crying when someone loses). My life is filled with enough[Read more]
You hear or read it all the time – I’m guilty of saying and believing it myself – computers and the Internet are wreaking havoc on our relationships. Sometimes I giggle and sometimes I sigh, when I see my husband with his Nook, me on my laptop, our oldest playing[Read more]
A good friend gave me a card that said, “There’s nothing a little lipstick can’t fix.” I cut those words out and stuck them to my laptop – first, because they remind me of my friend, her approach to life and her sense of humor; also, because “a little lipstick”[Read more]
If I had a nickel for every time I said, “If only they let me run things …” then I’d probably have enough money to hire the arms and legs I need to make all of my great ideas happen. It’s not a new concept: good managers are good at[Read more]
I’ve always loved ritual. Not sure I always knew that’s what it was – ritual – but I knew I loved rhythm and seasons and the familiar. New places and new experiences did not appeal to me as a child. Change made me nervous and surprises caused stress. I used[Read more]
Life/work took me to Texas last month and, thanks to the alignment of the stars (and my parents’ offer to keep our boys), I was able to take my husband with me and make a mini-vacation out of it. While traveling between San Antonio and Kerrville, we stopped in Comfort,[Read more]