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Medically speaking, I’m a mess.  It’s not that I’m really in that bad of shape, Ijust have a really low threshold for pain, and I hurt everywhere, all the time.  I was in a riding accident when I was a kid (and have never been on a horse since, I might add) and now I [...]

Are you interested in celebrating Halloween with your staff with an office Halloween party?  If so, here are some tips that many bosses don’t think of when they are planning the office party.

Plan the party for a day and time when people will be able to come.  You’ll need to think of things such as [...]

Usually about once a semester, the school staff has someone come in and give some kind of inspirational speech to the student body.  It might be MADD or a pregnancy prevention group; it seems to change all the time but the stories are the same; meant to scare us into behaving ourselves.  So when they told [...]

With the housing market struggling, the subprime lending crisis coming to a head, and the stock market varying wildly, many investors and homebuyers are wondering where — if anywhere — are the best places to buy real estate right now.
The answer is, anywhere the market is showing signs of stabilizing.  What you want to look [...]

What a wonderful day!  It was the first time Herb and I have seen the whole family together since Christmas.  Kevin and Joanna were up with the twins, who are so big I can hardly believe it.  Sammy and John came over with their three girls, and the kids all got to play with their [...]

In the fledgling economy many Americans are looking for secondary jobs or considering career changes all together.  Over the past decade jobs that allow workers to mandate their own schedules have become increasingly popular.  Home healthcare training educates employees in the growing field of home health care.
Caregiver training is available online and easily accessible. As [...]

I have worked for the same company for 5 years. For another 5 years before that, I was in the same business but with a different company. I know the ropes all too well and pretty well run the show around here. I can’t go into any specific details because the owner where I work [...]

We celebrated our first caught fish with some vintage “moonshine” from the locals, baked beans and bass cooked over the fire with salt, pepper, and lemon.  If that’s not old-school country, I don’t know what is.
During one of the funnier moments of the trip, we were well into the evening, the fire was dying and [...]

If you are getting married and you have decided to do all the planning yourself, you want to make sure that you get everything done ahead of time, so that you aren’t scrambling the day before the wedding making party favors or still deciding on your bouquet.  Fortunately two of the most important elements of [...]

Next month my family is planning to meet for our first ever family reunion which will be held in Florida.  It will be a wonderful opportunity to see relatives and loved ones that I haven’t seen in years.  However there is a lot of preparation in planning such an event.  Usually there is one main [...]