Making life easier, one hack at a time.
You know the story – you’re invited to someone’s house for a big dinner (say, Thanksgiving!) and when you ask what you can bring, they tell you “oh, don’t worry…just bring yourselves!” If you’re like me, you’re not totally comfortable with this. I mean, they are putting out all the effort to feed and entertain […]
1. Initiate Violation After killing time for the last 30 minutes, you get in the car late for your dinner date. Hop in. Turn on. Drive off. Get to the stop sign at the end of the street and make your normal two-head-swivels-worth of a stop (cough, slow down, cough…) and turn left into traffic. […]
Randy and I are a part of a fun dinner club (of course we are…) that has gotten together every six weeks or so for the past several years. It is a super casual Sunday night thing where the food is fancy, but the clothes and serving dishes are not. This month we hosted and […]
A couple of weeks ago, this article about styling bookshelves stumbled into my Bloglovin’ newsfeed. This weekend, I saw this from A Beautiful Mess about Candy Vanilla Milkshakes. Really? Vanilla milkshakes aren’t good enough? A bookshelf stuffed to the gills with family photos and good books just doesn’t cut the mustard? Nope, not when you’ve been a […]
Yesterday I met with a girlfriend getting ready to jump into her first (or at least biggest) entrepreneurial endeavor. Tomorrow I’m presenting to high school kids on the same subject. How did I become a knowledgeable resource on the topic?! Oh that’s right, I’m practicing: Lesson one – fake it ‘til you make it. I’m […]