Arm-wrestling my inner June Cleaver.

Though I’ve always considered myself the polar opposite of June Cleaver, lately I’ve been a cooking WIZARD.
Well, maybe “wizard” is overstating it a bit, since I’m just following a magazine’s plan for a month of simple dinners. But for a gal whose previous culinary stylings were limited to heating and serving whatever I happened to [...]

“Fireflies” Obsession: Art & Life Intermingled.

At 40, I know I don’t exactly have one foot in the grave. But having walked the Earth for this long, I do have a better appreciation of the here and now. (Better than the clueless, flaky 20-year-old me, anyway.) I now understand that the “here and now” will be “done and gone” just as [...]

Post-holiday card regrets

I know there’s no law stating you must send out a holiday card every year. But knowing how fun it is to see how everyone else’s kids are growing, I usually succumb to this holiday pressure.
But this year was different:

I was slammed with a (very welcome) freelance project.
My car’s engine light — having been on [...]

Dogs, Blogs & Tricks… part 3 in a series of 88 million how-to blog posts.

Well, maybe not 88 million. What I mean is that, although this is Part 3 of the how-I’m-learning-to-blog series I started writing… it’s become clear to me that Part 3 will lead to Part 4, and so on. (Duh.) In other words, I won’t ever really finish my story of how I’ve learned to blog… [...]

New for working moms: WorkingMomLifeline.com!

Now, I know that I owe you Part 3 of my beginners’ blogging journey, complete with how-to tips and resources… and I promise to get to that later in the week.
Today, though, I am excited to share a bit of news — I have been invited to contribute a column to a fabulous new web [...]