My favorite weekend in 2017 was the one during which I was the host of our local game show, The Right Price. It was an amazing operation,...

You are beautiful. You are smart. You are kind. Anyone bristle at those words? Anyone's mind go right to, "No I'm not! How could you say...

Earlier this week a computer I was working on stopped responding. The screen froze. The little wheel was spinning, spinning, spinning. My...

We had a large tree taken down in front of our house. So did one of our neighbors, who didn't want all the logs that were left behind....

I roll my eyes when I need to leave a voicemail for someone and at the end of her outgoing voicemail she says, "Make it a great day!" It...

I wrote a lot papers in high school. A lot. Our English department had a rigorous curriculum and very high standards, and since I had an...

Life is too short to use crappy pens. Yet there was a time I would save the best pens for only certain occasions or a certain type of...

We are creatures of habit. I may be worse than most. As someone with a continual emphasis on productivity,  I am a proponent of creating...

Did you ever have one of those days on which you are so sad to learn that something your daughter and a friend worked really hard for...

Time heals all wounds, right? Well, not exactly. It's one of those aphorisms that doesn't quite ring true for everyone. Some people are...

It's happened to most of us... You hear something, you believe it, you repeat it, and then you find out it isn't true. And you either...

I was having trouble with QuickBooks and had to ask a co-worker to help me determine whether an invoice had been paid. It had been, so I...

"I, Christin, pledge to myself and to my family, for which I stand, that for one day I will unplug it, power it off and shut it down, in...

I start most mornings out by myself. But recently I went for an early-morning walk with my husband. I knew he needed to get out of the...

I have a beautiful mouse pad. It's a gorgeous flower picture my husband took. It makes me so happy. And yet I hardly ever use it. It...

"That woman just ordered coffee with nine creamers!" one employee exclaimed to the other. My eyes opened wide. Not because of the number...

"I'm stress eating," my daughter said as she was about to start in on her fourth slice of pizza. As soon as the words were out of her...

Which question would you be more likely to answer honestly? "Is there anything I could done better?" or "What could I have done better?"...

I was a member of Toastmasters for several years. There were various roles to play at each meeting, and one of my favorites was the role...

Do you believe that feedback is a gift? I do. But wow, it is a gift that's hard to receive sometimes, isn't it? I recently received...