You just got home from the grocery store with all of the ingredients for a happy holiday meal. And although your kitchen sink is full of dishes, your dining room table is full of glitter and construction paper leftover from holiday crafts, and the guest bathroom has not yet been cleaned, you are…
Like it or not, the holidays are officially upon us, and like so many things, we all feel differently about everything that entails. Regardless of how you feel about the holidays, it is the time of the year when we are all running at full speed. To make the most of this "Most Wonderful…
I'm often asked for suggestions on how to prevent items from disappearing from shared home spaces like kitchens or family rooms – even on the job. The British Medical Journal published the results of a study documenting the disappearance of teaspoons from their cafeteria. They purchased both…
Your little one is finally asleep after reading Goodnight Moon for the fifth time, and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in all of the three bears' voices. You attempt to back out of their darkened bedroom without waking your adorable sleeping monster, and then it happens. You lose your…
Believe it or not a little band-aid and some antibiotic cream can go a long way to living a healthier life simply by killing a few germs. Since I am in the business of making lives better, here is exactly what your first aid kit should include. If you don't have one, you can buy some pretty good…
Collections get a pretty much universal bad rap. They can be expensive, dusty, excessive, and even dangerous. Collections, however, are not a bad thing, without them we would have no libraries, museums, or preserved scientific specimens.
Information on getting organized for back to school is everywhere from television commercials to sale ads in the newspapers – and even billboards. But there is an entire population of students and educators who are not included in all of this hoopla: home-schoolers. Educating children at home is a…
The military has touched each of us in some way throughout our lives; a parent, spouse, sibling, friend, or even personally served our country. For many in the military, their careers provide them with an opportunity to accumulate a variety of things that are significant, both historically and…
In our electronic age, it is very difficult to avoid the big bundle of cord spaghetti - you know, that place where all of your cords end up. The very best thing you can do is move forward with a clear system in place to prevent adding to the chaos with new tech devices. Only then can you go back…
To e-read or not to e-read, that is the question. My answer? A little of both is ideal.
