Yesterday, I attended my niece’s sixth-grade talent show. Twenty-five 12- and 13-year-olds climbed up on a stage with a spotlight and shared their skill, musical or dance abilities with their peers. Thinking about it is enough to make me break into a sweat. Turns out all we hear about bullying, tweens, teens, Facebook, Snapchat and…

My oldest daughter graduated from CU Boulder last Friday and it has been a whirlwind of a week.  On Wednesday, my middle daughter, Sydney, flew into Denver at the crack of dawn.  I picked her up and went directly to the the drive thru for IV bags of caffeine at Starbucks. High on caffeine, we drove to…

Just when you think that your goofy dog or your aloof feline doesn’t know what’s going on in the world or your home, they prove you wrong. More than a month ago, we said goodbye to our cat Parsley. She was the sweetest of all of us and her absence is apparent daily. Last evening,…

So, apparently the third time is the charm. This week I had the great opportunity to visit the Department of Motor Vehicles with my youngest daughter to get her permit. I am happy to report that despite their greatest efforts we were in and out of there, with the permit, in roughly 45 minutes. I say…

  You may have noticed the constant stream of complaints I have written lately about my life. I have experienced some challenges this year. I am working through it piece by piece but I have had a bad attitude about it fairly often too. I was talking with a client of mine yesterday and she’s…