Where living an amazing life never gets old
The only way to possibly top the magic of last night might be to spend the day at one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Luckily, the Great Barrier Reef was on today’s agenda! After our usual 1000 calorie breakfast, we set out for the marina, where we were welcomed with adorable water-resistant…
This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Erie Insurance. All opinions are, as always, 100% mine. My son, Alex, got married last weekend, which was so exciting and made it even more interesting for me to read the results of a national survey by Erie Insurance about wedding gifts couples didn’t register for…
Don’t throw out the corks from all those wine bottles you went through on Thanksgiving! We’ve told you before about how to recycle them, but here’s an even better way to use them to do good this holiday season. I saw this on Dawn Carroll’s Facebook page. Dawn is the co-founder of the Over My…
Five-time Olympic swimmerDara Torres made quite a splash at the Beijing Olympics this summer when, at 41, she became the oldest Olympic swimmer in history and the only one to win a medal in five Olympics. Torres won her first medal in 1984 — the year Debbie Phelps was pregnant with Torres’ future teammate, Michael….
Blogger Idol Week 5 Assignment: Write about a cause you’re passionate about, and introduce readers to two blogs you read regularly. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that a child dies every 20 seconds from a disease that could have been prevented by a vaccine. Measles, pneumonia, diarrhea and polio are four of…
I was so sad when Jen Kehl announced that today would be the last Twisted Mixtape Tuesday for a while. Granted, I only discovered it a few months ago and have missed many weeks along the way, but being part of this passionate-about-music group has been such a great and meaningful experience.
What I love most about reality TV singing shows like American Idol, The Voice and America’s Got Talent are the stories. Sure, it’s a joy to witness breakthrough talent and listen to gifted singers but it’s their background stories that get me every time. So I was really interested to see Teen Spirit, in which…
The original chick lit, Persephone Books boasts an eclectic collection of 70 forgotten or neglected twentieth-century classics by, for and about women that are timeless, thought-provoking and worth a prominent place on every serious book lover’s shelf. New editions come out quarterly and (re)introduce important authors like Katherine Mansfield and Judith Viorst We dream of…
