Do you find the holidays stressful? It’s such a busy time with high expectations of perfection, “comfort and joy”. How do you manage it so that you actually can enjoy it? This year we have activities planned..

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” ~Robert Orben I still love you and I’ll miss you, but I’m going just the same.  On Sunday, July 24th and for nine..

Travel changes us; there is no doubt about that. Travel removes us from the familiar routine that sometimes puts us to sleep back home. It broadens our perspective. When we go away we are able to see ourselves..

I’m a planner so as the year winds down, I’m already thinking ahead about the year to come. I’m making lists of what I need to do to tie up loose ends, as if the turn of..

It was our first Christmas together as a married couple. My husband was on the floor in the living room, putting the finishing touches on the wooden manger he was building for the ceramic figurines my mother..

There are always five things on my Holiday To Do list: getting the Christmas cards ready and mailed shopping; this is when it begins to feel like Christmas! baking the traditional family sweets decorating; I’m trying  something..