I was going to write a post about the loved ones I have lost to cancer. I thought maybe I’d write about my own terrifying fear of melanoma. But the truth is that cancer has touched every single person reading this post. You don’t need my story. You have your own. Every day cancer kills…

Happy birthday to you! Our friends at Primrose Schools are inviting you to celebrate as they turn the big 3-0! Join us for a fun-filled Twitter party where we’ll celebrate the 30th anniversary of Primrose Schools and learn all about their exciting Facebook Birthday Party Sweepstakes – where one lucky boy or girl (ages 1-5)…

I have been an HP fan for a few years ever since I fell in love with the HP Vivienne Tam Mini.  I never bought the computer, but I did get the matching scarf! Because even in my early days of blogging I realized that HP has a way to meet all of my technology…

Today I received multiple emails that began with, “It was so great to meet you at BlogHer in New York City…” from public relations professionals representing brands sponsoring or attending the conference.  It has been exactly a month since the event, so apparently Google calendar alerts all over the PR world were pinging this week…

At the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration last April, Meg Crofton, President of Walt Disney World Resort, spoke on the opening day of the event about the importance of treasuring each moment we have with our children. I have had the honor of hearing her speak on more than one occasion, and I am always…

Last fall I wrote about ideas for what to do with gently used toys that your family no longer needs or wants. In the past I’ve been frustrated to find that many organizations only accept donations of unopened toys when I know that there are many years of use left in the toys we have…

A friend of mine has what she used to call a 90% husband. He would work tirelessly on a project, and then just before completion, stop. I will never forget beautifully redone floors with perfectly measured, cut, and painted baseboards…that weren’t attached to the wall. Easier to pick up and dust then put back, I…

When you grow up in rural Pennsylvania, there are certain things that you simply take for granted. No matter which direction you look, you can see a mountain. Even the hottest summer days will usually give up to a cool evening. Driving on a Sunday always involves patience and horses with buggies. Football season begins…

Earlier this summer I shared some time-saving tips courtesy of Microsoft Windows and my presentation at the Type-A Parent Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Hopefully by now most of you have had a chance to reorganize your inbox and find amazing ways to use your new free time during this gorgeous late summer weather!  While…

I very rarely have time to read anything that is not before me on the screen or in my child’s “Notes to Home” folder from school, but there are three magazines I read with regularity: Newsweek, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. I was especially moved by an article in the September 2009 edition ofChristianity Today titled “Why the Care of…

Do you have one of those friends, or maybe it’s your mom, who will tell you what seems at first to be just an interesting story? She engages you, draws you in, makes you laugh. Then, at the end of her story, there is suddenly a lesson to be learned that you never saw coming,…

Recently word got out in my hometown that I have a website that claims in it’s title that I am Resourceful. Conversations at a wedding turned to just how resourceful I really am, and luckily one friend brought up a tip I once gave her that she uses with her son now. So to prove…

I love onions. I love the way they taste when they’re sauteed and mixed with other vegetables. I love spring onions rubbed in salt and eaten raw. And I love onions diced into tiny little rectangles and placed nicely across a well-done cheeseburger. But I hate the way they make my hands smell. When I…

Yesterday my husband and I returned home from London having spent two whirlwind days visiting my favorite city and attending three Olympic events.  In the last twenty-four hours I’ve been asked dozens of times what I thought of the trip.  Was it fun?  Was it crazy?  Was it exciting?  Was it exhausting?  The answer to…

Last week my dad handed me an interesting article he was reading about children and self-discipline. The basis of the article was new research showing that children can be taught self-discipline (is ‘taught self-discipline’ oxymoronic to anyone but me?). While I agree that parents can work with children to encourage patience and similar traits, the theory…

Have you ever wondered what you would have written about if blogs existed when you were younger? Well I don’t have to wonder anymore. During a recent trip to my parents’ house, I discovered a journal that I kept when I was seventeen and on my first trip to Europe with a large group of high…

Aging – it happens to each and every one of us. As we grew into adults, we were surrounded by loved ones who took care of our needs, supported us and nurtured us as we matured. For many of us, those roles have now reversed and we are now tasked with the job of caring…

Saturday night I found myself in the hotel bar at the BlogHer Conference in New York City.  In past years you’d find me dancing on the stage, screaming loudly when a Rob Bass song started, hugging the people around me and “squeeing” loudly.  This year I hung up my dancing shoes and instead found a…

Last January was a little bit rough.  That last sentence was a little bit of an understatement. The final straw after a period of a few long, stressful weeks came when I found out that my husband needed to travel to a not-so-safe location for work for a few days right after the holidays.  A…

All bloggers know that comments count, but for the month of August, comments can count to save lives.  Each day of August a new blogger is writing a post in the blog relay to support Shot@Life, and for each comment made on a Blogust blog post throughout the month, an anonymous donor will donate $20…

It is time once again for the biggest blog conference for women of the year, bringing over 4,000 women to New York City to learn about everything from WordPress coding to using social media for social good.  The BlogHer Conference could not exist without the support of scores of sponsors who take this opportunity to not…