A Year at the Chateau, what an accompaniment to an enthralling show! Our neighbors across the pond are well acquainted with British couple Dick and Angel Strawbridge. For the rest of us, we get the opportunity to hear about their adventures in owning a 19th-century chateau in France. A year ago, I stumbled across their… Read More
Maintaining good health is extremely important. Daily life becomes much like a yo-yo with constant ups and downs when you don’t. No one ever intends to live like this, but sometimes it happens when you set out on a journey to better health. For us, it has been another long week, one that started with… Read More
I was cleaning my office space over the holiday weekend and found a stack of books that I have not read yet. Picking up A Little Me by Amy Roloff, and holding it in my hand reminded me why I decided to launch this website so many years ago. All my life, I have had a love… Read More
It’s New Year’s Eve. Another 365 days around the sun. It’s been quite a year; quite the two years! A complete change in lifestyle for so many. Losses, heartache, uncertainty, anxiety, aggravation, and chaos. Although not completely unscathed, we made it here nonetheless. Giving Myself A Gift After living a quarantine lifestyle for the past… Read More
It’s time to share some year-end thoughts again. What happened to 2021? As we inch closer to 2022, I can’t help but wonder in amazement how I made it through another year of this crazy pandemic. How did we all get this far really? It has been two long years, and we are about to… Read More
Christmas in Peony Harbor by Rosie Summers is an unexpected Christmas holiday romance story, and one of the sweetest ones I have read in a long while. Christmas and romance stories are two of my favorite things. When they are combined, I am a really happy reader! This story really fit the bill for… Read More
I love to read. Most times, I gravitate towards the same genre. Then I feel like I am stuck in a rut. When this happens I need a complete reset. I pick up something that years ago I would never consider. I often pick up a children’s book is when I loose interest in my… Read More
During the months of August and September, I felt like I was perpetually “on the hunt” for that dream job I always wanted. After sending out way to many resumes and applications, I needed to sit back and wait. It was really difficult for me because I grew up with the understanding that if… Read More
A job search is never easy. Searching for a new job during a pandemic, well… let’s just say it puts a whole new spin on things. It wasn’t going to be easy, and I fully expected it was going to take some time. I had been doing a lot of online reading so I knew… Read More
My next adventure began May 22, 2020. It was the last day that I worked for the company I grew to love over the last five years. At the time, I didn’t know I wouldn’t be going back. Many thought I would be returning, including myself. But the Covid-19 pandemic had other plans for me… Read More
