If you work from home, your home office is where you will spend a lot of your time during the course of the day. Designing an office that is not only aesthetically appealing but comfortable and functional is important to your overall productivity. Not to mention keeping it neat and clean. When considering factors that pertain […]

Part of maintaining a happy marriage, especially after many years together, means doing things to keep the flame burning. Sometimes with the hustle and bustle of everyday life and parenting, it can be hard to find the time to spend with each other and cultivate the relationship. Of course my husband and I always have […]

It doesn’t take rocket science to embrace the notion that doling out a couple hundred bucks to repair a malfunctioning oven, rather than having to go out and spend a whole lot more to buy a new one. Still, sometimes there are more issues at hand than a simple “fix or replace” going on. And […]

I first published this buttermilk pancake recipe on March 1, 2011. We’d been in Germany for nearly 10 years and good pancakes were very hard to come by. We learned to make many things out of necessity while living there, especially when it came to food. And I’m glad we did. It gave us a […]

We’re all familiar with the oft-uttered refrain, “Home is where the heart is.” Structurally, a house provides us with physical shelter, but it’s a home that offers us shelter from the weather in our own lives – and all the storms we battle emotionally. Or as Ellie Rodriquez so eloquently put it, “The light is […]