8 Simple Steps to Spring Clean Your Yard and Garden
If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting anxiously to get outdoors and start to spring clean your yard in anticipation of spring. In most of the country, it seems winter…
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Common Household Cleaners You Should Never Mix
The right cleaning products are essential for a healthy home. Household cleaners are great. You can buy them at the store, you can make your own, or you can use…
6 Tips for More Peaceful Family Communications
Going home for the holidays can be a challenge for many. We’ve all heard stories about chaotic holiday events that turn family disagreements into verbal Armageddons. Some of us may…
10 Simple Ways to Save Money Now
Could you use a little extra cash in your bank account? Even if life wasn’t crazy right now, I certainly wouldn’t object to being able to save more and spend…
How to Grow a Successful Vegetable Garden This Year
Are you a gardener? Or are you thinking about trying your hand at gardening this year? It’s not as hard as you might think to grow a successful vegetable garden….
12 Ways to Stay Positive in a Crisis
This month really has felt like it’s been about 100 days long. Having to “socially distance” ourselves and then being under a stay-at-home order for nearly a month (are we…
How Journaling Can Make You Healthier–and 10 More Benefits of Writing
Are you stressed? Who isn’t—at least in some fashion—these days? There are as many ways of dealing with stress as there are stressed-out people. Some are good, and some are…
5 Ways Your Photos are Ruining Family Events
Are you ruining family events with your camera? Is taking photos for the family scrapbook spoiling everyone’s enjoyment? I know you don’t mean to spoil the day. In fact,…
Unique New Year’s Traditions Around the World
Happy New Year! It’s time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Are you a New Year’s Eve partier or do you prefer a quiet evening at…
Increase Your Water Safety with These 8 Drowning Myths
Are you water safe? Do you know what drowning looks like? Chances are it doesn’t look like what you think it does. With the hot summer season upon us, the…