I don't know about you, but the hardest things for me to toss at the end of Christmas are the Christmas cards that have arrived from across the country throughout the season. I know that keeping them serves no logical purpose, and I know that if I do keep them, I'll end up like my mom with a large shoe box full of 20 years of Christmas cards in my linen closet, still I can't help but squirrel those cards away. People that I know and love - or at least, people that I know - …
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Teenagers are never far from their phone and as nice as it would be to just separate them, my mother often says, you can’t unring the bell. The selfie generation isn’t going anywhere. On top of my constant vigilance with …
Disaster – Are you Ready for The Worse Case?
I've been awake since 4am, when it felt like someone dropped my house on it's foundation and then the house seemed to shake back into place for another minute or so afterwards. At first, I thought I was dreaming, but …
This is Why Illegal Tobacco Affects Us All
I was eleven when I tried my first cigarette. Eleven. My youngest is eleven now and every time I look at her I can’t imagine a cigarette dangling between her lips. I can only imagine how absurd I must have looked, all 80 …
Four Ways to Save Money, Reduce Food Waste, and Be a Green Goddess
When it comes to going green, I thought our family was doing pretty well. We shop with reusable bags, turn off lights when we aren’t in a room, do laundry and run our dishwasher during ‘off peak’ hours, and eat/shop …
How to Find Zen In The Laundry Basket
©Remon Rijper If there is a more Sisyphean task than laundry, I don’t know what it is. There is no such thing as being caught up on laundry; someone always needs clean underwear and socks, and then the towels need …
One New Thing: Lower Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Ugh, breast cancer, amirite? It's sort of like a terrible sitcom in that no one can find a redeeming quality about it anywhere. But unlike Hollywood bigwigs who continue to give life to horrible television programs, you …
