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Fishing Cabin Chic

When my husband started making plans to replace the floors in our living room, I took it a step further and opened discussions on how we ...

Behind Closed Doors

I saw on CBS Sunday Morning today that 80 percent of all new year's resolutions have been abandoned by the second week of February. As so...

Talkin 'Bout My Generation

I finally got around to reading some of the articles I've been saving on Facebook. Turns out I saved a lot of articles about Generation X...

PDCA

In manufacturing, we have a process called the PDCA cycle: Plan-Do-Check-Adjust. You make your plan of action, you implement it, then you...

Live From Here

If you didn't already know that I'm old, white and liberal, let me just confirm that for you by telling you that I'm an avid fan of publi...

First Do No Harm*

* - Unless you have objections to the way the person lives their life. In that case, just let them bleed out. This is the "moral" argumen...

#metoo

Just because someone doesn't tweet #metoo doesn't mean she doesn't have a story. Sometimes she just doesn't want to share it. Or even rem...

Expletive. Agnostic. Ice.

"Write about only three things: What you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about." -- Marlon James I reminded myself...

It's GAME DAAAAY!

I'm not a vlogger, because I'm a writer. And any good PR/Comms person knows her position is behind the camera. But today's a big game day...

New Year, New Me

It all started when I bought a planner. I have just a ton of events in the next two months - several of which I am hosting - and when the...

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I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.

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