8 Easy Ways to Have a Healthier Holiday Season
Between indulgent appetizers, stockings stuffed with sweets, and cookie exchanges galore, the holiday season isn’t exactly known for promoting healthy eating. And even though the average…
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5 Reasons to Start Volunteering After College
After graduating from college, I was living in Omaha, Nebraska and working at a small private doctor’s practice. It was a tough stretch at work…
Dare to Self-Care: 5 Tips for Treating Yourself Right
I headed into this summer ready for relaxation and fun. With the sun shining, I wanted to pack my schedule with social events and spend…
Busy Is the New Fine
Best-selling author of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, Alan Cohen once said, “Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done.…
You Are More Than Your Job
Recently, I was volunteering at my son’s school and struck up a conversation with another parent. Inevitably, the conversation veered toward work, and I cringed…
Fix It Up! 4 Ways to Be More Handy
About two years ago, my husband and I had finally scraped together all of our extra cash and somehow bought our first home. Like many…
Weekends With My Sister: How Hiking Helped Us Grow Closer
There is a six-year age gap between my youngest sister and me. As children, we fought constantly, which perpetually baffled my mother. “You’re six years…
How a Time of Isolation Made Me Appreciate Community
When my family made plans to live abroad for a stretch of three months, we envisioned the many ways the experience would enrich us. An…
7 Etiquette Rules That Are Still Worth Following
When I was a senior in high school in Chandler, AZ, I participated in a rather unusual experience for a young millennial woman: A cotillion…
6 Things Millennials Aren’t Killing
Lately, it seems like every other headline proclaims another business or product millennials are guilty of “killing,” from paper napkins to American beer to…doorbells? Even…
