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Opinion

Confession: I’m a Mobile Organization Hypocrite

April 26, 2010

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Be sure to leave your comments and suggestions! I read them all! Thanks for visiting!For someone who likes to be organized, efficient and “on the ball”….wow, I have a huge confession. It’s one that I hope won’t make you take me less [...]

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On an entirely different subject: Branding and Southwest Airlines

February 16, 2010

In another life, I was quite the marketing critic. As a teenager, even, I would mark up with a thick red pen the direct mail advertisements my family received in the mail and send them back to the advertiser with my notes and corrections. Yeah, I was THAT girl. Branding, especially, has always been a [...]

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Another Junk Study: Kids Wreck Your Marriage

April 10, 2009

Imagine my surprise when my news reader featured yet another junk study that took eight years (and goodness knows how much money) to come to the determination that, “Secret to marital bliss: Don’t have kids” Sigh….ok, let’s examine this more closely. The “study” concluded after eight years of study (I could have told them this [...]

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You Don’t Have to Spend it All

March 22, 2009

I’ve read numerous stories in the past weeks about people who were living the good life….fancy cars, expensive homes, and dream vacations…only to find themselves homeless, jobless and penniless as a result of this economy. How does that happen? How does someone go from a million-dollar home and a nice car to no home, divorce [...]

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The importance of “Monkey Work”

January 10, 2009

“Monkey Work” Def: Work that is easy to do, requires very little preparation to get started, is somewhat repetitive, and breaks up the day to get you motivated to do more challenging work later. I believe having a certain amount of available “monkey work” to do is vital for breaking a cycle of lack of [...]

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Toys for Tots Needs Mom Bloggers!

December 20, 2008

As many of you know, the Toys for Tots organization which is administered by the United States Marine Corp is drastically low on toys and funds this year. If an immediate influx of donations of toys and money is not received in the next couple of days, more children than ever will find nothing under [...]

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Why the Motrin thing ticks me off….

November 16, 2008

In a perfect world, every woman would have a healthy pregnancy, a glorious pain-free birth, a wonderful breastfeeding experience and would feel completely happy and bonded with their child all the days of their life. But most moms have trouble in one or more of these areas at least once. When we do, we’d really [...]

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