Is All Fair in Love and Taxes?

by | Apr 5, 2016 | giveaway

I met my husband on April 15. An easy date to remember! Also, the last day to file federal income tax or apply for an extension. If you don’t follow the IRS’s stringent rules, trouble abounds, plus penalties. Are you thinking: Oh, goody, we get to pay our...

Spring Cleaning

by | Mar 22, 2016 | giveaway, Spring

When my husband and I surveyed our messy kitchen the other day, I joked, “Too bad one of us isn’t compulsively neat.” No matter our good intentions, magazines, envelopes, boxes from Amazon, and do-dads accumulate. Spring has officially made her...

Patience Versus Promptness

by | Feb 23, 2016 | giveaway

I recall as a teenager staring out the classroom window in March, April, and May, counting down the days until school let out for the summer. A classic case of Spring Fever. I wonder how many of you reading this are suffering from the same malady right now. Speaking...

Drop-ins Welcome

by | Jan 12, 2016 | giveaway, Holidays, Winter

Last weekend, I set off for a walk with no destination in mind. I prodded myself up a steep hill, then another, and then made a few turns—not my usual route. As I ambled along, a woman who lived at the top of yet another hill came to mind. She and I had belonged to a...

New Year’s Resolutions

by | Dec 29, 2015 | books, giveaway

I’m usually pretty quick with a comeback, but last week when a man asked me what my plans for 2016 were, I was tongue-tied. A new year already? was all I could think. I realized 2016 was quickly descending upon me, but I’d been too busy to contemplate it....

Happiest Time of the Year

by | Dec 8, 2015 | giveaway, Holidays

As I sat on hold for 15 minutes trying to reach a department store online website, it occurred to me I was not enjoying the holiday spirit. I’d decided to take advantage of the Black Friday sales and got online, only to be frustrated when the website went on...