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Let's talk about junk mail... or is it?

I was delighted to spend the long weekend early this month traveling. I find the short, cold winter days in the Northeast draining. So a friend and I took off for a warm weather destination: Iceland! We left at -8°F with two feet of snow on the ground. Reikjavik was in the low to mid-forties, with no snow in sight. It’s just wrong, and the Icelanders agreed. Now that I’m back, I had to work through the pile of mail that accumulated over the last few days. What struck me, as a

January is a too serious month

January is a hard month. Let's talk about loneliness and savings.

Just another day in the life of a small business owner

Oh, the joys of being a new, small business owner!

Make the holidays a gift

Are you ready? Every year I’m surprised how December has become time of busy-ness for all of us. We’re shopping. We’re baking. We’re traveling. We’re going through the expected motions, building to a holiday celebration weighted with generations of traditions. It can be exhausting and disheartening at a time we crave connection. Most of our year end traditions involve gift giving of some sort: Christmas, Channukah, Yule, Kwanza, New Year. And each year many of us dread it,