This is our Year of the Lost Luggage. Our suitcases have been lost twice this year. In the many years that I have been traveling by...

My husband recently gave our family an unexpected gift. He had all of our home movies put on to DVD’s. Many of the film clips we had...

Not everyone is prone to be introspective. Introspection is when we take time to look at ourselves, our actions, our behaviors, our...

I recently heard a story on National Public Radio that caught my interest. It was about what happens when someone makes a social mistake,...

I read Real Simple magazine. I just like the title – the idea that I am trying to make my life more simple rather than complicated. I...

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? When author Susan Cain, who wrote the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t...

My husband told me a poignant story that he heard from another father. The dad has a son who runs high school track, and when there is a...

If you live in the Chicago area, and if you shopped at Dominicks Foods, then you know that the recent closing of the Dominicks stores...

I recently heard a TED talk featuring Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google. It was about picking one thing to modify in your life over a...

I really enjoy listening to National Public Radio. One of my very favorite features on Morning Edition is StoryCorps, which I often...

We are embarking on that six-week period of the year that we seem to look forward to…..and can be apprehensive about…..all at the same...