The First Year

I’m sitting here with just a few minutes to spare before picking up pizza on this relaxing Saturday night and reflecting on how incredible it is that I have been writing officially as a blogger for a year now.  I’ve been writing my whole life but, as I have mentioned before, I lost touch with it when life got busy.  I started thinking about starting a blog almost two years ago but it took me a year to finally get[Read more]

How Far Would You Go for Your Kids?

This topic has been a hot one lately with the breaking college admissions scandal in the news.  I’ve been a part of several conversations with other moms talking about what these parents did and why so I thought it would be a great opportunity to write about the subject of how far we would really go for our kids. Let’s face it.  The majority of us don’t even have the money to do what those moms did but the subject[Read more]

Age is Just a Number

I have had some recent conversations about age and getting older so I thought I would write about it because I think age is all irrelevant in a lot of ways.  First of all, for those of you who don’t know me personally, I am 45.  Yes, I said it.  45!  Crazy enough there was a time in my life when that sounded ancient.  The funny thing is I have embraced this year I think more than any other.  Not[Read more]

Look Beneath the Surface

I have to admit that towards the end of the year, the business of life really got in the way of blogging more often, but I am back and looking forward to staying inspired and motivated to keep creating content. Here in LA, there was a local story recently that struck a chord.  A local reporter who we watch every weekend died suddenly at the age of 43.  While I initially thought he had a heart attack or was in[Read more]