I’ve been moved to tears seeing the devastation Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have caused in this country these last couple weeks, as I know...

“Do you like where you keep your checkbook?” I asked my husband as I idly stirred some pasta on the stove.  “I’m going to organize the...

I always assumed that having kids would teach me how to love.  I just never imagined that parenthood would teach me how to love not just...

Are you sick and tired of the seemingly never-ending debate about healthcare in America?  I sure am!  For years, I’ve been following the...

It has been exactly six months since I have had a sip of alcohol.  I started drinking in college to be cool and to be happy.  I cut...

It’s Monday night. After an hour and a half of chopping, boiling and grilling (spaced in between missing-toy-train-reconnaissance...

I have a new rule for time management in 2016, and it’s a rule I plan to follow for the foreseeable future (or maybe even forever). This...

When I was single (a time that spanned almost three decades), I had many opportunities to spend Christmas and New Year’s Eve (not to...

It was 12:45 a.m., and my husband, Lancelot, and I were stuck in the Charlotte airport. Our flight to Dayton had been cancelled and we...

I’m a planner. I’m a planner by nature, by necessity and even by profession, having planned and executed several fundraisers and events...

My most desperate moment of thankgiving didn’t happen in November. It was a winter evening in 2003, maybe February or March, with the...

I was recently reading a book by Gary Zukav, “Soul to Soul,” and I came across a few interesting passages about people-pleasing. In the...

Where should we go, and what should we do, when everything in our world feels unsafe? I can’t think of a single place in the world that...

I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to be an interesting person. When I catch up with old friends or relatives I haven’t seen in a...

I was holding my five-year-old son’s hand in his school’s parking lot yesterday afternoon when he casually pointed to the sidewalk....

My life is not balanced. It’s never been balanced. I don’t know what the perfect mix of activities should be in order to achieve balance....

If I were to ask you right this moment who you were, how would you answer? Linda Gray, actor of Sue Ellen Ewing fame and author of “The...

You know the classic question – is the glass half full, or half empty? Your answer determines your outlook on life. See the glass as half...

Yesterday, my husband and I celebrated our 9th anniversary. Naturally, the occasion had me thinking about love. My husband (who I will...

Hi, I’m Carrie, and I’m an apology-holic. It’s one of the most evident downsides of not feeling good enough. I’m constantly apologizing,...