Could you pack up your life and travel around the world with your kids for a year? Would you want to? For most of us, a year of traveling with family sounds like a pipe dream or a disaster waiting to [Read More]
Work/life balance – the holy grail of a happy and fulfilling life. Or so they tell me.
I wouldn’t know; I threw out the notion of balance years ago.
In fact, it was around the time my daughter screeched, “Why do you always have other things to do?! Don’t you like me, Mummy?”
She was innocently brutal in [Read More]
Bills, receipts, insurance information, birthday cards, kids’ artwork, magazines, credit card statements, newspaper clippings…the list goes on. Everyone has some degree of paper clutter sitting around their home. You know you shouldn’t throw it out, or can’t bring yourself to, but you don’t [Read More]
It’s summer – the kids are out of school, the days are longer, our calendars are less crowded. You might think all this would lead us to feel quite carefree. So why do many of us feel just as frenzied in summer as [Read More]
Most people have heard by now that meditation is a great way to stay grounded, reduce stress and find calm in a stressful world. It’s true. It is a great way – and it’s so simple. Sit down. Breathe. Continue.
“I should meditate,” you might say. I say it. My friends say it. My clients say it. Yes, we [Read More]
Behold the digital wonders of the modern world. No longer do we need to research answers in our local library, use a phone book, or even pick up a phone to communicate with friends. Digital information is all around, enveloping us with its infinite realm of possibility.
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My parents are amazed to see how my 6-year-old son adeptly navigates his iPad and how he doesn’t shy away from letting us know when he thinks the wireless network is [Read More]
Being a bride in the digital era comes with its perks and complications. On the upside you have access to amazing ideas, inspiration and tools to make planning easier. On the other hand, you can lose hours of your life searching for “Ampersand wedding accents.”
As someone who is 4 months deep in wedding planning, my [Read More]
My super-smart sister lives in modern day London. But what she’s smartest about tends to be stuff that happened in previous centuries. Have a question about Bach concertos? She’s your girl. Stumped by the Latin name of your favorite plant? She’ll nail it. Wondering about the finer points of Georgian architecture? She’s got it [Read More]
Sometimes I feel like all I hear these days are: books are dead, publishing is dead, print is dead. Here in Silicon Valley, it’s easy to get caught up in that mindset, where everything and everyone is getting “disrupted.”
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