Moms who take care, juggle work and life and make a difference in the world are my heroes. It’s even more admirable when these same super-moms see a gap or a need in our world and set to work to fix it. That is the story of Jill Barletti, a translator by trade, who noticed… Read More Single Mom Creates Books Series that Reflects Today’s Families
Welcome to my recommends for those of you who are just dipping your toe into the blogging waters! I feel like a student of monetizing blogs because I have spent YEARS investigating and testing ways to do just that. Since 2016, I have had many opportunities to coach and guide several ambitious folks who are… Read More A Blogging Toolbox just for New Authors
I’m sure you’ve seen the TV shows and you may have even seen one in real life. I’m talking about the super-cool lifestyle choice of downsizing your life and opting for Tiny House Living. The shows I am referring to are Tiny House Nation, Tiny House Hunters, and Tiny House Big Living. I know there’s… Read More Tiny House Living-Franticmommy Style
What are the best times in your life when it’s sensible to clean house and get rid of stuff you don’t use? I think it’s when you’re either: a) Fed up with too much crap and clutter b) Ready to make living with less and doing more a priority c) OR…a combination of the two.… Read More When is the Best Time Downsize Your Stuff?
Although living small has been around for hundreds of years, the lifestyle of *tiny house living* has taken our country by storm. From TV shows to Tiny House Resort getaways, people are clamoring to experience life in a Big way by doing More with Less. In short, it’s the act of Minimizing Your Stuff to… Read More Minimizing Your Stuff to Maximize Your Life
Those who follow me on Facebook know I’ve been working on a unique challenge for myself: no TV for a month. #30DaysNoTV It’s not easy. Over the last year, I’ve developed an addition to Bones and NCIS (the one with Mark Harmon in it…yummy) reruns. But I’m not giving up, mainly because it’s given me… Read More The Shape of Us
The tiny house movement, a social movement that advocates for living simply in small homes of 399 square feet or less, had been steadily growing for years, and one of my besties, B.A. Norrgard has actively made that lifestyle her reality for the past six years. Long story, short–B.A. went to school together and lost… Read More Tiny House, Big Life | 10 Fun Facts about Tiny House Life
Recently, I was at my daughter’s school for a meeting and I happened across a project displayed in the hallway that tugged at my heart. A section of the hallway wear festooned with leaves from the paper Tree of Smiles. Each leaf was an individual student’s contribution of something they’d done recently to make someone… Read More Skittles and a Smile
Mama, you are enough. Stop doing that to yourself. You are enough They were encouraging words that I had just shared with one of my coaching clients.She had been lamenting that she’d gotten “nothing done” this week and her business-building task list was still (in her mind) a “mile long.” “Whatever you did to move… Read More Get off my football field
April 20, 2019, marks the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting; a tragic event that, at the time, was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. As the years marched on since that horrific day, memories for on the outside looking in may have faded a little, but those who were caught… Read More Remembering Columbine | Over My Shoulder by Kacey Ruegsegger
Anyone who knows me knows that adult coloring is my jam. Anything that is line-art-inspired, that can be colored with coloring pencils or Sharpies makes my heart sing. And then I came across a fellow Minnesotan that offered up a project that made my heart sing even louder. Terri Birnbaum’s The RealGirls Revolution was created out… Read More A Girl Power Coloring Book for all ages: RealGirls Revolution
Time Sandwich by Matt Brennan with illustrations by Jonathan Reich This young adult graphic novel is quite the hoot! I knew I was going to be in for a treat when I saw the tagline of “A Start in the Middle Book” on the front cover. When Tuckie and Huggs discover a time machine, they have… Read More Sandwiches, Time Travel, Dinos, OH MY #GraphicNovel
