In the spring of 2006, I was pregnant with my first child and attending my first Women's Foodservice Forum Leadership Development...

What are you doing right now? No really, right now. Are you enjoying a blog post? Are you mindlessly clicking on a blog post? Are you...

What are the most frequently used words in your house? Choice is one of ours. I guess it's because I've always been drawn to that quote...

I took a heavy course load in the second semester of my freshman year at Marywood University. One of the ways I made it through was to...

This spring I heard a keynote speech presented by Elina Fuhrman, who is also known as Soupelina. When she was talking about the steps she...

"Okay, time to wrap up work on your blog and head out for a walk/run," I said to myself. "But I don't want to go," I responded. "But...

I had good intentions. I had a blog post started and time set aside to finish it. But then my daughter, who's had a tough start to the...

Have you heard this expression attributed to Mark Twain? "Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." How much time have you wasted...

Last month our family took its biggest vacation yet, traveling a total of 1971 miles from our home in Pennsylvania to several stops in...

I was almost out of breath I was moving so quickly. Running a marathon, perhaps? Racing to catch a train? Or participating in a...

It took me a while to get on the hashtag bandwagon. For ages, they just seemed dumb, mostly because I didn't understand them. But in...

"I'm sure there are faster ways to get there, but I'm comfortable with the route I take." To a productivity geek like me, that's...

Last fall our family had developed the bad habit of focusing on the one bad thing happening instead of the many good things in our lives....

When this post goes live, I will be on vacation. And if all goes according to plan, I will be far from my phone. Why? Because to restore...

Years ago I read half of Getting Things Done while on jury duty. I never did finish the book (yes, I see the irony!) but there are two...

Have you had one of these experiences? "What's for dinner?" "I think I'm going to make burgers." So you walk into the house several hours...

The list of what we can't control is long. Many things, from the President to pouring rain, turbulence to taxes, are outside our...

I once asked a boss for some feedback in what was turning out to be the world's shortest performance review. His response? "You're good...

Do you have a bunch of projects that are mostly complete? Ones you started with enthusiasm, made good progress on, and then stalled? What...

This summer has been a stressful one. My full-time job always gets busier this time of year because of a reduction of my team members'...