Romance on Any Budget

Romance on Any Budget

A Hopeless Romantic is defined as someone who has romantic ideas about life. They tend to be thoughtful dreamers who see love and romance everywhere and envision an idealistic life. Hopeless, because it’s thought to be impractical. Romantic because it’s an idealized...
4 Steps to Achieving Your Goals

4 Steps to Achieving Your Goals

Here we are – another New Year, another Auld Lang Syne, another clean slate. Did you set your goals for the New Year? If not, it’s ok – there’s still time to set them (or set more). The thing about a clean slate is, it stays clean until you write on it.   One of...
A Kept House

A Kept House

  I grew up in a very un-kept house. If relatives were coming for the holidays, it was a total freak-out to get the house cleaned up. I even remember a few times when friends popped by unannounced (like people in the south do), and we literally hid until they...
Packing for Paris – or Anywhere

Packing for Paris – or Anywhere

  In just a few weeks I leave for my yearly sabbatical to France.   I used to be a delayed gratification girl – you know, celebrate after the journey is done and the war’s been won (rah, rah). I waited to go to Paris for years as the prize for some unnamed...