• Alarm clock

    I Set My Alarm Clock for Success

    Waking up well starts at bedtime   I enjoy being a morning person, but I’d never be a successful one without my alarm clock. In fact, the way I get out of bed determines my success as a human being…

  • Memories Hide Within the Clutter

    Why do we keep the stuff we keep?   I alternately wage war and make peace with the clutter in my house. Occasionally my tolerance of “stuff” reaches critical mass and I go on a rampage against it. In those…

  • Food is Love and Cookbooks are Sacrilegious

    Lessons from an Italian Grandmother My Italian grandmother taught me that food is love. She lived ten minutes from us growing up and never came over empty-handed, so my siblings and I were the recipients of an awful lot of…

  • Christmas traditions

    The Handbook of Christmas Traditions

    For my tradition-loving family, Christmas is our favorite time of year. We love every aspect of the Christmas holiday. Our family has traditions for everything from worship services to decorations to food and entertainment. You might say we are wrapped…

  • Too Old to be Outdated

    You are as old and as young as the words you speak. I try not to be lured into clicking those outrageous headlines in my browser’s sidebar. But as a slightly compulsive wordsmith, once in a while a great grammatical…