5 Tips for Balancing Your Summertime Vision

You have your essential questions; you have chosen your summer activities.  You have a summertime vision of what you would like this summer to be like.  All of a sudden, it is the end of June, and you feel like nothing has happened, or the opposite is true – too much...

Let Summer Fun Begin!

Summers growing up on the farm seemed to last forever.  I remember my summer fun at catching fireflies in a jar, riding my bike to the creek, playing on the front porch with my dogs and feeling carefree.  Summer fun for my grandchildren look different in that they...

5 Ways to Recognize and Reduce Stress

When you hear the word stress, what comes immediately to mind?  Is it the stress that comes with peak performance, as an athlete in top shape, running the best race of her life? Or the stress that pumps adrenaline into your body as your sprint to catch your child as...