Growing up, every year on the first day of school we would have spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. It’s a delicious and comforting meal...

Like many people lately, I have succumbed to the allure of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils to benefit your...

My husband and I own a cute white house that was built in the 1940s. It has a huge bay window in the kitchen that looks out into the...

Composting is a new adventure for me and I wanted to share with you how easy and worthwhile it is! By now, everyone is aware of my...

Work life balance...is there such a thing? I wonder sometimes. We all do our best to balance life and work. We know that our families...

I am one of the few people I know who wears an analog watch (or a watch at all, for that matter). I love my watch. I think of it as a...

We are huge coffee drinkers. We drink it morning, noon, and night, summer and winter and we just love it! Because we drink so much we go...

We had the great good fortune to attend the Jekyll Island Shrimp and Grits Festival this past September and loved every minute of it. ...

It’s that time of year again when we all make unattainable resolutions and end up disappointing ourselves long before the sun sets on the...

Are you a list maker? Do you write things down that you want to accomplish each day, week, month, or year? Do you write out your annual...

I am not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions- I have rarely kept them and have trouble narrowing down all that I hope to achieve in...

The first time I watched the movie A Christmas Story I was a mere 28 years old. I remember laying on the den floor of my mom-in-law and...

A few summers ago, my dad and I recreated the Oregon Trail by car (more on that in a later post). The first leg of our trip took us to...

A big part of my job for the last several years has been planning my City’s local parades. Believe it or not, there is no handbook for a...

Felting is a super fun, super easy craft that I truly believe anyone can do. I am not crafty in the slightest, but I enjoy felting very...

Part II: The How-to-be-Happy Part (see also Part I: The Happy Part) As a counselor, people tell me all the time how much they dislike...

Christmas movies are my go-to’s for bad days: nothing can cheer me up quite like a Christmas movie. They’re also my go-to for good...

Yes, I really do love holidays - every single one of them - and we celebrate them all! If you think I am kidding you should see the...

I recently finished reading Educated by Tara Westover. It was, without exaggeration, one of the best books I have ever read. This is a...