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Do you feel as if you have a purpose? Most people find meaning in the many layers of life; raising children is a lifelong dedication, jobs fill our days with tasks and challenges, charity work makes us feel good about … Read more
Fall weather is slowly but surely starting to seep across the country and we’re even starting to feel a touch of it here in warmer states. It’s not so cold that leaves are falling from the trees like the east coast, … Read more
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to witness the birth of a new sporting event. However, this weekend the beautiful Sherwood Country Club in Lake Sherwood, CA, hosted the inaugural PowerShares QQQ Championship, and I was lucky enough … Read more
Solar power is emerging as an important renewable energy source that produces no pollution and has vast potential. The sun sits over 90 million miles away from the earth, but it only takes sunlight roughly ten minutes to travel that … Read more
History might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you taste that first sip of delicious, crisp wine, but it has an extensive tale that has snaked its way across continents. Not only has its existence been … Read more
College football season is a time for tailgating, party hosting, and all things NCAA. If your husband is anything like mine, it’s been all football all the time lately. College football season also means that fall is near and I … Read more
The Canary Islands are one of the best places to go in the world if you want to practice water sports. Tenerife, the largest of the islands, is a popular place with surfers, looking to get the ultimate boarding high on … Read more
Looking for Easter Eggs has become somewhat of a game whenever I watch a Disney movie on DVD (let’s be honest, I’m too engrossed in the film when I see it in theaters). Now I’m not as great at it … Read more
Families have equilibriums just like seesaws. Someone takes a little here and someone gives a little there and everything stays in balance. But all it takes is one member exerting too much pressure on one side to throw the whole … Read more
Once upon a time, women weren’t allowed to run in the Boston Marathon. Women were considered “too fragile” and “physiologically incapable” to distance run. Can you imagine being told you can’t enter a race solely because you are female and … Read more
I have quit a lot of things that I regret. There was the soccer team I tearfully abandoned after I hit another girl in the face with the ball. Then, piano lessons I never returned to when my crusty, old … Read more
Thunk! I saw the light in the kitchen ceiling sway with the commotion overhead. My mother shouted, “What is going on up there?” She didn’t miss a beat as she chopped away at vegetables and just shook her head when … Read more
Let’s face it, while the whole do every theme park all day every day until you drop family vacation is something we all have done and loved, it’s not really something you can do every single time you visit Orlando. Sometimes … Read more
As far as theme parks go, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando has been a smashing success. After visiting the parks on numerous occasions I know it’s due in large part to the insane amount of tiny … Read more
[infobox]According to a Gallup Poll, 70% of the American work force doesn’t feel engaged in their work.[/infobox] That is a startling number of people unfulfilled in their daily jobs, and it makes it hard to believe in the American Dream. I come from … Read more
Whether it’s your spouse or child, loving a member of the US military often means that for periods of time we have to say goodbye to large pieces of our hearts. It’s never easy, but part of being a military … Read more