Our little family is a family of people who run their own shops. That might sound like a family of business titans but I can assure you that it is not! When we think of people who runs small businesses we tend to think of the wealthy examples of people who run more lucrative businesses... Continue Reading →
Dealing with Dogs While Exercising (and a note to owners)
Okay, let’s start with a confession. I have a bit of a reputation for not liking dogs. For a time I would have said that was mostly true but I don’t think it is now. What I don’t like is running into loose dogs unexpectedly with no context. I’m fine with dogs, the issue I... Continue Reading →
A New Year With No Real Resolutions
I’m a big believer in new year’s resolutions. I’ve written about it a lot in the past here, here and here for example. Some of the biggest and best changes I’ve made in my life started as a humble new year’s resolution. This new year’s is different. This is my last new year’s in my... Continue Reading →
An explanation for an Unexplained Absence
Let me say first that I didn’t expect that his summer would mean a total hiatus from the blog, but it’s happened. I did get busy with work this summer but not that busy in terms of hours worked. Save for a couple of dozen nights I was usually home well before dark. I did... Continue Reading →
Weekend Motivation 204
We had a not THAT terrible winter storm last Friday night and our power was out into Monday morning! Let me tell you I was NOT impressed! I am not a camper at all and 6 hours into the 54 hour outage I told everyone not to even bring up the idea of camping before... Continue Reading →
Resolutions for those who don’t think they need them
Every year I write something about new year’s resolutions because as basic as they might be thinking extra hard about the path forward has really helped me out in the past. I have done the typical quit smoking and get fit resolutions in the past I have done more existential idea type resolutions too. More... Continue Reading →
Guest post: Gifts from my daughter
Forward: A few years ago my mom ran her first fun run on a whim and it went totally okay, mostly. After that she didn’t have the running bug though. I still managed to twist her arm into a couple more 5k’s, and then she did. Soon after that I invited her to do a... Continue Reading →
How not to ‘Karen’
Oh my are we ever here now… First of all I think we need to collectively apologize to all the prefectly lovely Karens out there, it really could have been any name. But… if you are a Karen who is a Karen it’s probably at least partially your fault. But some of this behavior is... Continue Reading →
Is 2021 going to be a hot girl summer for you?
Because I think it should be! Regardless of size, age, budget or even gender! I’ve just recently learned about this meme, because I am old, but I like it! After some googling I found out that maybe we were all supposed to have a hot girl summer last year but… that probably didn’t go according... Continue Reading →
8 ways to survive a busy time
Am I the busiest person in the world, no and I hold no delusions about that. But… every year the work that I have done means I have crazy busy periods. That’s true of me in the past and now. I’ve probably had a busy period most years for the last 15 years. In the... Continue Reading →