It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. Department stores are burgeoning with worthless doodads and advertisements for handy gadgets are flooding the media. Is there seriously…
Pet peeves: everyday irritations, periodic vexations, the pimples on the face of a flawless day. Even if you fancy yourself a blithe soul ready to embrace the serendipity of life,…
Where were you on September 11? Ask anyone over the age of 25 about that horrible day in 2001 and their recollection will likely be vivid. Americans died in a…
Everyone likes to save a buck but the latest couponing craze, AKA Extreme Couponing, has taken frugality to new heights. Think penny-pinching on steroids. I recently had my first real-life…
My choir director issued a challenge to us at practice on Sunday afternoon: Pay attention to the ‘God moments’ in your life this week. A half hour later, on an…
Using the medium of checkout receipts to communicate with the consumer is nothing new. Thanks to National Cash Register’s technology - that enabled stores to print on both sides of…
While spring has long been a favorite season to work outside in the yard sprucing up the landscape spring is also the season to “manscape” as hyper-conscious men go to…
My neighbor’s husband has his own theory about this packing battle between the sexes: a man makes a commitment to wear everything he packs and only what he brings whereas…