Pin It If someone had asked me 20 years ago what my life would be when I turned 50, the answer wouldn’t be the life I’m living now.   I was living in Los Angeles with husband #1 (yes, this is #3 for me), going to school to become a cosmetologist and enjoying the California life. That...

Pin It Sometimes when I come back from family reunions…I feel, well, sad. Oh, I love my family…. it’s just that I want so much more for them.   From year to year, not much changes for folks. They are still “broke, busted and disgusted” and talking...

Pin It Do you worry about whether your blog offers quality content that your target readers will love? Remember the movie, “Julie & Julia?” She was so excited when she got a comment!  Yes, it’s a good feeling. You’ve got fans! Lady Gaga calls herself “the luckiest...

Pin It Know this scene:  You just got in from work. You haven’t taken off your shoes or gone to the bathroom. The kids are home from school or daycare or camp, you’re trying to cook dinner, the phone won’t stop ringing, and mail is in overflowing… No, this is not a...

Pin It It’s bold. It’s vibrant. It’s eye-popping. It’s cool. It plays nicely with camels, browns, and black. Style recommendations: the boldness of this blue can be scary and overpowering if not done correctly, so our recommendation is to start small and balance the...

Pin It Remember when we needed shoebox after shoebox to store our pictures? I would spend hours putting my pictures in order and using index cards to create dividers. Now that many of us have digital cameras, we need to take control of our digital picture organization. I decided very early...

Pin It I always tease my single and childless friends about working out. I often say, “Man, if I didn’t have any children, a husband and just a job you couldn’t tell me anything! I’d have the flyest body around because there would be no reason I couldn’t workout and treat my body...

Pin It I recently read an intriguing article written by Anne-Marie Slaughter on The Atlantic Magazine website entitled Why Women Still Can’t Have It All and it stopped me in my tracks. What do you mean I can’t have it all? Isn’t it the American way? Isn’t that my reward for working...

Pin It I’ve tried to put on a happy face for the past two days but the truth is, I’m quite sad. Mr. Incredible has traveled to San Francisco on a business trip and won’t return until this weekend.  I guess some women will be overjoyed that their husbands are out of the...

For a while now I've felt like I've been losing my mind, or more so my memory. I can't remember squat, and started calling what I'm experiencing 'brain farts.'