"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.  Then, when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra, etc.  Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.'" - Hugh Macleod, gapingvoid, How to Be Creative  Isn't that the truth?  I wonder if people would be less repressed and more willing to take risks if the arts were as mandatory to participate in as mathematics.  I'm a strong believer in the importance of creativity in our ...

Isn't it the best wake-up call to see your child doing or saying something less-than-admirable and then you stop and realize they learned it from you?  I imagined motherhood to be so different than how it actually is (didn't we all?).  I really believed that my kids would learn honesty and other valuable virtues in a way like this:One day I wake up and with my mother's intuition I sense it is now the moment to have the "honesty" lesson.  "Children, gather round," I say (in a tender voice just barely above a whisper), and all of my fully-dressed, clean, well-mannered children rus ...

Last night I attended a snooty, fancy event.  I had been really excited but was quickly disappointed after about an hour of standing around at the event while loud music blasted, cheap cookies sat (looking ever-less interesting) and a high-fashion crowd flitted about the room and the open bar.  I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was that was so disappointing about the event for me until I thought about it in comparison to the Wasatch Woman's upcoming Wasatch Woman of the Year event.Last night's extravaganza lacked SOUL.  It was a superficial, floozy, agenda-ridden evening ...

Oy veh.  I feel like I've got "Bloggers Block" this holiday break... well, actually all of December.  Whenever I sit down to blog, I get really stumped at figuring out what to write about.  All the ideas I planned out prior seem dumb and difficult to write about once I get to sitting down and writing.  This leads me to conclude that - truly - you can't do it all.  Yes, I know - how cliche, but it really is true.  About a month ago I thought my ability to not "do everything" I wanted to do was merely a scheduling and time management issue.  However, as I'm loo ...

For the past 14+ months I've spent much of my time building an online store.  My vision for the store was for it to become a heavy competitor to online stores like Costco.com, Target.com and Etsy.com.  I knew I was dreaming big, but I really felt the dream was possible.  I slaved over my store.  My husband would tease me that I was only earning pennies for my efforts, but even that became a joke later on as keeping my store open became more of a charity for the vendors I was working with than anything else.  The vision was still there and it still was possible but I ha ...

Have you ever thought that there just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done that you want to?I bet you have.  I think this just about every day.  I know that "law of attraction" would say that I need to change my thought process to that of "time is in abundance in my life."  However, I just don't have time to change my thought process.  ;)Recently, I've been launching a new business idea & it's taking up all my spare moments.  Needless to say, things aren't getting done around my house like I wish they were.Today I happened upon this hilarious blog ...