What’s your Sound of Music?

  The Sound of Music was the first movie I ever saw in a theater.  I was 5 years old.  It was during our family’s summer vacation in Brunswick, Maine and I still remember it like it was yesterday.  Since that day I’ve been enamored with Julie Andrews, the abbey...

This Year it’s Happy ThanksGIVING!

What images come to mind when you hear the word Thanksgiving?  For one of my best friends, and how her family does Thanksgiving, it conjures up Norman Rockwell type images – a warm cozy picture of an aproned woman presenting a perfectly roasted bird on a silver...

Practicing What I Preach

Last week I spoke before a roomful of amazing women in Fayetteville and shared the message that everything in our lives is perfect and just as it is supposed to be – even when the winds of chaos, challenges and even tragedy are swirling. It’s a talk I’ve given...

Home Sweet Home

I’m a woman of action. I can move mountains in minutes. I mean I can really make things happen. When I get an idea, an inspiration or make up my mind to do something, you had better stand back because stuff is going to fly. Got a business idea? I have been known to...

Time to Take Action!

I love summer!  Love, love, love summer! If you know me at all, you probably know this about me.  I love everything about it. The sunshine, the kids out of school, my annual trip to Maine, evening bike rides and my favorite of all – floating in the amazing...
Today Was the Day…

Today Was the Day…

Three or four years back I went out to dinner with my sister and brother-in-law and their daughter.  When the checks came, I took ours but instead of my brother-in-law paying, my 28-year-old niece said, “I’ll take the check.”  I sat there dumbfounded.  She bought THEM...