Susan Bonifant has figured out some things, now that she’s an empty nester. Including how to clean her laptop. Read more from Susan on her blog. For quite a while, I have been married to a man who travels. I’m good with that. I like a lot of solitude, and I’m very independent. We …
There was a link circulating last week about what Facebook is doing to your brain. Who wouldn’t click on a hook like that? The video, packed with rapid-fire assertions suggests one theme: we have allowed ourselves to substitute e-connections for actual, IRL (in real life) ones. Depending on the presence you believe you have out …
Disclaimer: This post is going to be about how much we help our kids get into college. We did it, you did it, and according to the book of Good Parenting, which is also known as What Everyone Else Does, it is what we should do. This is not a post that thinks there’s anything wrong with …
This is my favorite time to post for two reasons. I don’t have to apologize for being preachy because you can’t write a “what I learned” post without being preachy. And, after a year of paying attention to people – the things they say and don’t say, the ways they are treated and how they treat …
People think your soul mate is your perfect fit. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. — Elizabeth Gilbert. Very soon, our daughter will be married. In my …
