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Lessons in Spring Cleaning

Trying New Things: Wisdom From My Father

Guest Blogger: Coupons Can Be Fun

GUEST BLOGGER: Gwen Handel Dahlin, The Frugal Connection Just the other day when I was getting ready to clip my Sunday coupons, I noticed my 3-year-old son was watching me from ...

How Two Award-Winning Authors Are Improving Literacy with Pen Pal Buddies

        Did you have a pen pal growing up? Did you go on adventures through reading and writing? Two award-winning authors, Cameron  Davison (Lil Boo) ...

Leadership: And Other Traits I Hope Are Hereditary

          My younger brother turned seventeen in Alaska this summer. He and I – both barely of eligible age for the task – were hir...

Back to School: Tips for Simple Success

It's always hard to get back into the swing of things. I enjoyed school, but just like every other kid, my countdown till summer started on the first day back to class. Each school year, I told mys...

S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting

Towards the end of my senior year of high school, our class was given an assignment: learning to set realistic goals. To help us with this assignment, we were given an acronym to memorize: Speci...

Teaching my kids about "Slow Food"

I'd never been out of the Pacific Northwest until my early twenties, and knew little about other parts of the world. I've been very lucky to have traveled abroad with my wife and kids several times...

My teen driver, and legal jargon for dramatic effect

I have three children who I expect to be responsible drivers, and one (the one who just got her license) to require an almost daily lecture.     I drew up a six page car ...

A letter to my teenage daughter with her first job…

Honey,  There’s a lot anyone at your age can't anticipate, so I thought I'd send you this list hoping to pass on some information you and ALL people your age should know. ...

Just fill it up to the line...

...and other things I should have known before leaving the nest. Three days ago I had boarded a plane alone and ventured thirteen hundred miles away from home to my first year of college. Two days...

The Lazy Brain Test

Jack is looking at Anne. Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? A)   Yes. B)   No. ...