Essays & Perspective

While I begin Weekend Reads the day after the last one is published, I wait until Friday afternoon to write this blurb at the top.  When I started a draft for this post to start dropping articles I found this week, I figured I’d write about the end of a year, the end of a…

The holiday rush is over.  The seasonal sponsored posts and gift guides have been published, the gifts have been purchased. My daughter finished her last day of school and doesn’t return until next decade.  We have our traditional Christmas Eve and Christmas Day family activities and even booked a little getaway for New Year’s. Other…

This was a week of Adulting with a capital A. If you follow my Instagram Stories you know last week I was struggling with healthcare. Thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act (AKA Obamacare), since I no longer work for a company, I am able to get my family insurance through Maryland’s healthcare exchange. Last year…

Cyber Week may still be going strong, but I chose to not share sales this weekend (except one exceptional one below in my Weekend Reads) so you could get a palette cleanser. While this is a fabulous season for shopping, there’s more to December than gifts and holiday outfits. And December can be a bit…

Weekend Reads are late this weekend because this is no typical weekend!  If you’re like me you may not even be sure what day of the week today is! Yet again, we hosted Thanksgiving.  This year was a nice-sized group of just nine of our family and like family. We’re eating plant-based, so Karl cooked…

It’s Friday night, I’m writing this and I am brain fried. Today, I had a hair appointment I made two months ago. I was only two miles away when I realized I didn’t have my wallet. I left it in the other car, the car Karl had on the complete opposite side of the state….

Once November arrives, life gets hectic. It can be a whirlwind of buying presents, managing intense schedules, attending events and figuring out what to take and wear and bake for such events, hosting friends and family, the emotional toll of some friends and family, money issues, travel issues, weather issues, and on it goes until…

Sometimes you learn lessons that are major a-ha moments that help define your life.  I had one at an influencer workshop where the trainer shared that most influencers fall into one of two categories – church and school.  A “church” influencer is offering inspiration, a lifestyle.  Follow me to be stylish like me, fit like…