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What Time Is It? And Other Questions Travel Has Made Impossible
Travel is supposed to broaden your horizons. Apparently, it also broadens your confusion about when to eat lunch. At home, I understand time. Morning means coffee. Afternoon means getting things done. Evening means deciding whether I have enough energy to get things done tomorrow. Then I travel, and suddenly my phone, my stomach, and the…
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Staying Calm When Someone Else’s Chaos Affects You
It’s easy to talk about staying calm when the problem belongs to somebody else. It gets harder when their actions affect your time, your money, your work, or your peace. Someone loses their temper, and now you have to deal with the fallout. Someone fails to follow through, and you’re left scrambling. Someone makes a…
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Super Tip Friday: Keep Your Sheet Sets Together!
Fold your fitted sheet, flat sheet, and extra pillowcases, then tuck everything inside one matching pillowcase. Store the bundle on your linen shelf so the whole set is ready to grab! Make sure linens are completely dry before storing, and group sets by bed size. Less searching, easier bed changes! 🙌
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The Complaint Marathon: Politely Exit, LOL!
Protect your energy! You can start the day feeling good, then find yourself in a conversation with someone who has something negative to say about EVERYTHING. Every idea, every person, every possibility—somehow, they find a problem. 😩 And sometimes you end up in that conversation by accident. You were just saying hello, and now you’re…
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A Safe Place to Land, With Room for My Own Journey
When you care about someone, it can be hard to watch them struggle. You see a possible solution. You recognize a pattern. Sometimes you have already lived through something similar, and you want to spare them the frustration you experienced. But people need room to figure things out for themselves. That discovery is part of…
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Podcast: I’m Leaving Indiana, But Indiana Isn’t Leaving Me
There’s something strange about packing your bags when you know you’re not the same person who unpacked them. I’ve been in Indiana—and spent some time in Illinois—for about a month now. And now it’s time for me to leave. For now. I keep adding those two words because I’ve learned something during this trip: I…
