Nike tells us to “Just DO it”

Helloooooo, how’s that to do list coming along?? The longer you wait to do something, the BIGGER it grows in your head, am I right?? The task doesn’t actually get harder as you put it off, but your PERCEPTION of it gets bogged down in layers upon layers of...

When Monday strikes…

I apologize in advance for any bad puns in this email:) Ok, I lightly apologize. (I considered a one-sentence email today, but I’m afraid I’d have to turn in my writer’s card if I did that!) I know you love a good story, but I just flat out...

I bet you’re WINNING 2023 already!

Here comes April!(P.S. I know I constantly talk about the calendar and months passing, but I have method to my madness, I promise!) Just a quick aside: if you’ve never read or listened to the memoir Love, Lucy (and narrated by her daughter Lucie Arnaz…) put it...

There’s traveling, then there’s TRAVELING!

Planes, trains and automobiles, traveling…it gets old. Pre-COVID, my husband was a nonstop road warrior. It was nuts. 3 out of 4 weeks per month, he’d leave on a Monday and return Thursday (or sometimes Friday!), bouncing from state to state, city to city, state...

When the magic wand is fully charged!

Truth bomb: being able to find info at a moment’s notice helps us to be CALM. And who doesn’t like being calm? Twice in recent memory (as in last Sunday), I showed up as the “info hero” in my household…and I’m not gonna lie: it felt...

You’d better sit down for this one!

This may come as a bit of a shock, but…take a deep breath…I have chosen to declutter (as in: donate) my beloved wedding dress.  OMG. Right?!?! It’s true. (PS I’m NOT decluttering the man I married in this dress on August 9, 1997!! Not to worry!!) But...