With the Easter Bunny due to hippty hop here on Sunday and Elijah making a hasty exit earlier this week at Seder, family and friends are gathering around the dining room table. In the spirit of both of these holidays, strangers or those without close connection with the host may find themselves becoming a temporary member of the extended family. ... read more
Do you have a co-worker, colleague, business constituent or perhaps career mentor who has the ability to make even the most challenging obstacles look effortless? That everything this person handles leaves you inspired, gob-smacked and a smidge envious. That this person’s obvious talent makes you want to pull a Malkovich just to see the world ... read more
I have a love/loathe relationship with creating client scrapbooks, truthfully anyone’s scrapbook; at least I am being financially rewarded for my efforts with a client. I love designing a pictorial assemblage of a vacation or celebration with photos, mementos and souvenirs. Matching papers and sourcing decorative elements that coordinate with the ... read more
Do you have one of those stand-by restaurants that serve really good food and as much as you want to dine elsewhere, you keep returning because it is so reliable and possibly the Caesar dressing may have a secret addictive ingredient that compels you order it 3 times a week? Well ok, perhaps the latter is more a personal issue, however it doesn’t ... read more
Maintaining fresh cut flowers is a little like training the puppy, if I want positive and sustaining results, I have to put in the effort to cultivate them. I absolutely adore having flowers (not plants, these thumbs are not green) in the home. The bloom need not be fancy or exotic – in fact I treasure a bunch of daisies probably more than any ... read more
There had been one book in particular on my amazon wish-list for a couple of years to which I was often nonplussed and simultaneously perplexed as to why it had yet to be purchased on my behalf. Well, I guess more specifically why my father had failed to snap it up, as he seems to be the only one who routinely checks and procures from my reading ... read more
