Parenting is a journey filled with countless stages, each bringing its own set of joys and challenges. One phase that often goes unspoken is the transition from having tweens who still depend on us for everything to watching your teens become more...
As I have established on more than one occasion, I love books. That will never change—all books. Along with books for my reading pleasure, I also am obsessed with cookbooks. A good cookbook is like my porn. The pictures, the ingredient list, the...
Back in the beginning of August, Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs were hit by a series of F1 tornadoes, we do not get tornados around here so this wasn’t really expected. Leaving a path of power outages for days, some places no running...
I don’t have a lot of cool party tricks. I know a lot about bourbon from my years in the biz, but I tend to really geek out on that. People are interested in it or after about five minutes, you see their eyes glaze over. One of my more impressive...
I love fall. Every year it’s like I get more desperate for its arrival. By the time it gets to September, I’m like, “I’m going to need a crisp leaf on my desk by 8am or else.” As a matter of fact, it’s the whole of the fall to winter season I love...
I’m not a person who lives in fear. Anxiety? Totally, but not exactly fear. I think I hold an average amount of fear for a woman. There is just so much to be afraid of as a woman. Show me most any woman and I’ll show you someone who does not want to...
It seems every time I log onto social media, some new friend is posting about their child’s College Move-In Day. It must just be the age I’m at now. All these young adults now smiling in front of their new school signs were once just babies, it...
As I take a deep breath and know this will not go over well in the area I work in with holistic health and wellness but something in my gut keeps telling me to share my personal story in the area of holistic alternatives. This is a reminder that we...
There is very little in this world I love more than back-to-school shopping. I loved it when my daughter, Josie, was little. I went into Walmart and found the list her teacher had carefully prepared for her students. Upping the ante, I love college...
Two weeks ago, to round out summer, my mom offered that, if I could come up with a cost-effective last-hurrah summer trip itinerary for me, her, and the girls, she would pay for it. The thought of this idea completely thrilled me. I had been dying...