Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with the people who matter most in our lives.
Better Life Organizing – Top 5 Organizing Tips Your home is a reflection of who you are and it should be your place to relax. Make sure that everything on your walls – such as pictures, art, or anything else you look at every day – makes you feel good and brings you happiness. The […]
You’re a health-conscious mom who wants the best for your kids. You work hard to make sure they eat well and get plenty of exercise, because you want them to live long, happy, healthy lives. As a health coach and former school wellness teacher, I applaud you. If all parents made healthy eating a priority, […]
Mary LoVerde, our keynote speaker for the 2015 Women in the Mix Summit, believes that connection is the solution to just about every problem we will ever face. To test that theory, in 2010 she sold her dream house, gave away nearly all her belongings and embarked on a make-it-up-as-you-go global adventure, living around the […]
I got an emergency call last week from my aunt with news that my mother was confused and in terrible back pain and needed my help immediately. She inferred it might be time to move my mother and father (who has Alzheimer’s) to an assisted living arrangement. I jumped on the next plane from Denver […]
Being an ice cream fanatic, I’ve developed a technique I call “double-dipping,” which describes tools for maximizing value & time in my work-life mix. I immerse myself in my son’s world by watching ESPN 30-for-30’s (biographies) together for sports analogies to life lessons. We relax together, and he doesn’t realize I’m teaching him wisdom. Then, […]
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” – Thoreau. In a recent post on Momastery, Glennon Doyle Melton challenges: “So why not just laugh now?” I concede, I, too, can be guilty of being caught up in the race for the new and different, thereby losing sight of all that is right in […]
Do you spend time worrying about where your children are? Did they arrive to school/sports practice/friend’s house and forget to check back in? Wondering if your husband will make it home in a timely manner for a dinner/carpool/kid pickup? Are your children texting and calling endlessly when you are five minutes late to pick them […]
“It is very easy for me to get overwhelmed with the “to-dos “ in life, as I know most moms endure. Staying connected with like-minded mothers has been key for helping me realize that the inbox will always be full, there will always be another bed to make, another dish to clean but my husband […]
Husband and wife, Mark S. Davies and Rachel Laser, teamed up to write a thoughtful and pragmatic article about “balancing” two careers with kids in the mix. They are self-titled “CLIPS” – Career-Loving Involved ParentS: “[b]y ‘career-loving parents,’ we are using a phrase from Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In that conveys our dedication to both home and work. […]
“You speak so nicely to him,” a friend recently commented, with something akin to shock in her voice, when I finished a call with my husband. She wasn’t the first to share her observation, nor state it with a tone of surprise. For the almost 20 years that Malcolm and I have known one another, […]
