When my favorite candle company, Illuminations, went out of business in 2009, I was really bummed out. Illuminations was the only store that sold candles that didn’t nauseate me, give me a migraine, or send black smoke pluming through the air. My very favorite candle was rosemary grapefruit, and the last one I owned is […]
How to Create the Life (and Business) You Really Want
A few years ago, I sold my website and started a new venture in mobile apps. Apps were a big failure (lesson?) for me, and after floundering around for a bit, I moved on. Before selling my site, my yearly income was high five-figures, so I knew I wanted to earn at least that (and more), […]
This is a Test
This weekend, I did a little experiment. I deleted the Instagram app from my phone (I deleted FB long ago). Over the past few weeks, I found myself mindlessly opening IG while doing the following: – Taking James out in the yard, any time of day or night – Standing in the kitchen – Sitting […]
6 Essential Oils for Winter Wellness
My mom came up on Tuesday and she brought eight gigantic boxes of Kleenex® that she got on sale at our local market. We thought that having eight boxes of Kleenex might be like buying a snowblower and then having a snowless winter, but alas we were wrong: it’s the 12th day of school and […]
Fun and Freeing Fridays
One Thursday morning in 2011, I saw my friend Charlie Gilkey tweet, “What can you do today to make your weekend more spacious?”. As a mom of three kids, my weekends were anything but spacious. They were the opposite of spacious. They were filled with laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning, cooking, and yard work. Sometimes, school […]
How to Single Task (And Why You Should)
Last night as I was headed up to bed, I thought to myself, “Did I get the coffee ready for tomorrow?”. The answer was yes. Yes I had gotten the coffee ready for tomorrow. The reason I couldn’t remember if I had or not was because I was on the phone with my mother while […]