A Love for Learning is a Love for Life

A Love for Learning is a Love for Life

I am researching colleges with my 16 year old son. At nearly 48 years old, I am in awe of this process. How I wasted my high school and college years thinking school was a means to an end. Thinking “I have to get good grades. To get into a good college. To get a...
Food Matters

Food Matters

Something to think about today. As our nations health continues to suffer, we respond in two ways. The food companies ALTER the food we eat (less fat, more fiber, skim milk, 93% lean, gluten free etc). And the pharmaceutical companies patent more drugs. Neither of...
Make your life about courage

Make your life about courage

Make your life about courage. Can we stop mimicking the movie “Groundhog Day?” I am astounded by how many people live the same day over and over again. We get married, we work, we raise kids, and our lives go to autopilot. And just like the movie, we are...
12 powerful bits of advice for my teenage sons.

12 powerful bits of advice for my teenage sons.

Dear Alex and Andrew- I know you both think I am nuts half the time.  Nonetheless, as your parent, I have a right to share some words of wisdom.  I realize that some of these things may be a little over your handsome teenage heads, but as your mom, I insist that you...
Become unbusy

Become unbusy

“Busyness, at it’s core, is about misplaced priorities.” A truthful, humbling quote from a must read blog entitled “A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy.” We are overwhelmed.  We are stressed.  We have no time to breathe. We consider car...