Renovate – restore to a good state of repair, modernize, refurbish, overhaul In his gentle way, he hugged me and said, “Don’t worry honey, I will take care of it” and he did and One morning while reflecting on all that was going on through these different phases of renovation, I remembered a saying “Life imitates art”… The home renovation became a life reflection…revisiting the personal design changes in my own life …considering my past, reviewing mistakes made as well as cel

As adults, new normals have become a way of life from our college days of freedom and flexibility…to structure and independence with the first job…partnership with give and take in a marriage. A new baby completely upsets everyone’s apple cart from parents…to siblings…to grandparents! It takes a family…extended family…and often outside support to come together and help everyone adjust to a new normal. The ebb and flow of life requires flexibility… tweaking… and readjusting to

Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living“… a pretty powerful statement when you consider it. The end of the year seems to be a time of reflection as I get older…I look back on some years  that have appeared bland…insignificant…definitely not a show stopper.  There have been years with no reflection as I just wanted them to go away…disappear and never be considered again. Reflect…ruminate….cogitate…deliberate…what do you usually do?  I don’t cogitate… just sayin

No, it wasn’t a tire….I have an 8 month old at my house. Now you get it….the best place for it to happen is at home But as in my life…poop doesn’t always happen at a convenient time or place! For a baby, it can be at the nursery and you forgot a change of clothes and an extra diaper in the diaper bag…bad for the sitter…you on the other hand, feel like an idiot as you depart with a bag of soiled clothing….and briefly consider tossing it the trash to destroy the evidence! Poop

We all have it….unless you are OCD! Admit it…who doesn’t have a junk drawer in the kitchen…that would be un-American…right? We get busy with our day…have our hands full…drop a stack of papers in a spot…thinking I’ll put that up in a bit…that stack keeps accumulating and before you know it…you have CLUTTER! If you are on the run with kids…work…and life how can you not have some clutter somewhere? My house is usually tidy…but my closets and my office have become quite disorgani

For me reflection begins with laughter at the silly things that have happened…I then move to the losses in life like a friendship that somehow slipped away…or the friends and relatives that passed away…last but never least, come the mistakes…errors in judgement…poor decisions that were made (you know the names we give them screw ups, disasters, mess ups, failures)…. the life experiences that  you and I would like to forget, or redo with a different result. If I stayed in this

This week I have been home! I have written part of this blog entry sitting in a spa waiting for my toes to dry from My world of technology has created a 24-7 work environment that encourages overwork and delays turning off, shutting down and relaxing. Even when I am home, I am busy trying to catch up on my household agenda while continuing to work…a double whamy! Upon reflection, I often overlook the smaller pleasures of life while working hard for the larger pleasures in lif