I think we are all in agreement that ‘it’s been a week’. Many of us had travel plans, made the difficult decision to cancel and then realized soon after there really wasn’t a choice to make after [...]
Is it okay if I brag a little bit? I just won an award. I won the 2019 Nova Writes Joyce Barkhouse Award, which recognizes excellence in the category of writing for children. It’s for one of my [...]
Reflect on the areas that are most important to you, create a plan and take purposeful action. These last few weeks have been a bit different for me. I got back from a family vacation to [...]
Here’s what I love about Halloween. There’s an expectation that everyone gets something they want. It’s like a parade of positive feedback. And all you have to do is put a bit of thought into a [...]
NAIL IT!® Success Stories In my first career I worked in public relations. In my PR role I wrote a lot of news releases. There’s a formula for writing a news release that gets read and it starts [...]
Has your mother ever told you to mind your Ps and Qs? Honestly, I never knew what she was talking about. Be good? I did a little research on the origin of the phrase and my favorite explanation [...]
Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean it’s your passion… I highly suspect that Lu is suffering from career burnout, but he isn’t your typical employee. Still, twice a day Lu [...]
What I love about this Fairy Tree is how it got its start. It wasn’t always the star of the forest. In the 15 years or so that I’ve been walking along its popular path I hadn’t really paid it [...]
Lately, the graphic images of families being completely uprooted, young lives being taken too soon and the desperation to create some sort of ‘new normal’ is hard to watch. Like many, we wonder [...]
