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Full-Contact Easter

As we all know, Easter is traditionally a holiday centered around full-contact no-holds-barred athletic competition. (Wait, no? Really? That’s not a generally accepted way to celebrate the mystery of our faith? Weird.) Get Your Head in the Game Growing up, my family was never one to break tradition. So we embraced both the family togetherness…

Magical House Cleaning Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies for When Everything is Sticky

Inside: You could clean your house, or bake some eggless chocolate chip cookies and call it a day! Scroll down to the bottom for the recipe, or stick around for some laughs first. We have a two year old and a ten month old, so everything is sticky. Everything. It’s gotten to the point where…

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The Time I Almost Destroyed a Summer Camp Musical Production (And Why That Matters to You)

Inside: Most of this is an embarrassing story of failure until it’s not. Take the career lessons from this story and enjoy a good laugh at my expense. I spent five summers as a proctor (fancy name for camp counselor) at Project Contemporary Competitiveness – PCC (really fancy name for summer camp). As a proctor…

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The Parenting Strategy that Made Me Resilient (And Funnier)

Inside: Do you have a kid who takes herself a little too seriously? This parenting strategy can help! As a child/adolescent/teenager I was kind of a pain. Not in the “always in trouble” sense, but actually just the opposite. I got good grades (on the extra homework I requested), I was really into extracurricular activities…