Changing My Focus

I really like to write.  It is hard to put the newsletter together, but writing is fun.  With the newsletter, I struggled with the formatting and the pictures and the text boxes and the font sizes…So many of you tell me you loved the newsletter, but alas, I have decided to take the pressure off […]

Go ahead—Take a Nap

It’s unhealthy and exhausting to be connected to the world 24 hours a day.  These days, with e-mail, instant messaging, cell phones and PDAs, the idea of never being away from work can be exhausting and demoralizing, not to mention inefficient.Some stress management experts say a nap can refresh the mind and body so we […]

Slow down- you’ll go faster

If you are anything like us, you lead a very busy life, too busy in many ways.  We juggle work,  kids, exercise, romance, bills, sports, grocery shopping, housework, the list goes on.  I am at the point in my life where I am trying to balance it all out.  For me it begins at work. […]

Get Moving

Well, you may have been wondering why you didn’t get your newsletter, or maybe you didn’t even notice…but Wow!…has it been 4 months since I wrote??? I love the John Lennon line from the song Beautiful Boy, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”  This has certainly been my life lately. […]

What’s Going On… 2009 Goals

Each year after the holidays, James and I sit down and write down our goals for the following year.  Now these goals are different from resolutions.  In my experience a resolution is a promise to change something huge and broad forever.  Hard to keep for the long term, we are human after all, and society […]