Allow me to explain what I mean by that. A few years ago I was working out weekly with a trainer, and to change things up a bit, we...

…or dream another dream. - C.S. Lewis I just saw 89 year old Sylvia Weinstock, the renowned cake maven on tv, proudly saying to some...

So I’m currently on Day 3 of complete laryngitis. I’m not hoarse, I’m not raspy, when I try to speak or make any kind of sound at all,...

I know that sentence above doesn’t make any sense. Allow me to explain… A few years ago I met a woman who regularly dusted her pipes. ...

Sometimes, when we’re making the choice to choose happiness in our lives, we have to take a look at what we’re doing on a daily basis. ...

This is hard. No one’s saying it’s easy. But in order to choose happiness, we need to rally against those things that, according to the...

I recently heard 2 different women say the same thing and I have to say, both times it blew my mind. The first comes courtesy of the...

Something kind of mind-blowing happened to me the other day. I was folding laundry and I noticed that in one load of my clothes I had a...

…being alive is the special occasion. I recently had the opportunity/honor to help in cleaning out my husband’s grandmother’s house after...

Have you ever seen people at a concert, singing all of the words to a song at the same time? Maybe with their hands up in the air,...

Ever. I have said many times that throughout my life more people have been unkind to me than kind to me, more people have thrown me under...

Do you know what I believe to be one of life’s greatest pleasures? Birthday cake! I don’t care if it comes from the supermarket, or a...

My daughter got her wisdom teeth out today and right before the surgery I asked her, “Are you ready to have four fewer teeth in your...

I just had to share my experience from today. It was a huge lesson in choosing happiness and joy and patience instead of frustration,...

This seems counterintuitive, because everybody always says, “To achieve true happiness you have to make your dreams come true!” And this...

There’s a great line in the movie Sixteen Candles. Samantha is upset because her family forgot about her 16th birthday and her best...

Or the alternate title: A Tale of Two Kitchens Several years ago when my kids were in preschool, one of the moms there was having her...

That’s a quote from Mark Twain and do I ever know this well. We are taught from a very young age what is “better” about other people and...

Here are some of the recipes I talked about in the “When Times Are Bleak Do Something!” blog. Rachel’s Better-Than-The- Bottle Lemony...

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” - Susan Cain Or, more simply put, DON’T SHOULD ALL...