Well I’m back!!!! I so enjoyed my time away. I was in the UK visiting my childhood friend as we celebrate our 50th Birthday years plus 40 years of friendship!! Then, I took last week off to get back in the swing of things! It’s funny that I spent 7 days away and 2 weeks
My family and I are home for March Break! The last March break that my children will have together…which I didn’t really think about until I was writing this! I am looking at everyone’s social media on all their wonderful trips they are on, I’m not envious except maybe for my cousin in Hawaii!!! But
Last time I wrote about buying local and now I would like to suggest that we buy with a cause in mind or perhaps it’s just a ‘buy-product’ of your shopping and consuming. Either way, ‘It’s a good thing’ to quote Martha Stewart. There are countless businesses and organizations that sell cool products and support
Something that I’ve embraced in the last few years is local…shop local, buy local and celebrate local. Everything from farm fresh vegetables, egg and meat suppliers, fruits, honey etc. In addition, micro-brews, cider houses, kombucha, and wineries in my region. Now, move onto items such as local retailers supplying clothing and other apparel, personal items
Well today Gia the Dog has left us to go to school. She is scheduled to be a seeing eye dog. Which was not what I put out to the universe… but obviously the universe had a different plan. I do take great comfort in remembering meeting a visually challenged woman this past summer who
So, my son comes to me the other day and says ‘With all of these allegations against high profile male figures in show business, how will I know what I can and can’t say to women?’ It can be a hard question to answer for a 16 year old boy (young man) but it did
We recently had to spend a Saturday driving to the ‘big city’ to buy my daughter pointe shoes for her ballet. It’s not that we couldn’t get them close to home but it can’t compare to ‘The Shoe Room’ which is operated by National Ballet of Canada. When I was growing up I always wanted
Over 10 years ago a friend of mine introduced me to a little gem of a place, tucked into the small town of Chesaning Michigan…Cropping Daze Retreat. At first, we used our 3 day trip to Cropping Daze for 2 reasons…to get away from our young children and the daily grind that comes along with
So, it used to be that I really enjoyed the month of May. When I first met my husband (31 years ago!!) I soon found out that his birthday was in the middle of May and we would celebrate. Then, some years later when we were planning our wedding we were thinking of possible dates
Recently, one of my kids was planning to meet with a friend and I realized that things are much different now then when I was growing up, in many ways of course. But what I’m referring to specifically relates to this recent situation. My husband said to me once ‘It didn’t matter where I went
