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Mom Parent to two small children, with sanity mostly still intact. Key Accomplishments Rescued both children, both of whom were “climbers,” from certain death about twice a week through toddler years. Coax children to eat daily meals despite fair-to-middling culinary skills, resulting in weight gain that pediatrician approves of and graphs on her laptop regularly. …

It snowed this morning. Did I mention it’s April 25? Yeah. So, I’m very, very tempted to be disgusted with the weather, but it’s days like this that the voice of my college cross-country ski coach suddenly blasts through my brain: “Don’t complain about the weather!” I haven’t seen him in years. I hate when …

You, the quiet one whose ears are ringing from all the festive noise out there this month. How are you doing? Hanging in there? Yeah, me neither. I was just at Target yesterday, and I got in a shopping cart traffic jam in the Christmas light aisle, and I started to panic. All the flashing …

I love recommending reading for clients. It’s like cooking up a recipe for the brain. Add the right ingredients and your mind can nourish the biggest dreams and sustain you through the worst days. So I thought I’d post a little recipe for anyone whose job just doesn’t work for them anymore, but the road ahead looks too tough. …

When I was in college, I was asked this question more times than I can count. I majored in comparative religion, and believe it or not, it has been a practical major for every job I have had since then. I got my first newspaper reporter job out of college because I had a religion …

Every morning this week when I woke, I saw the red sweater hanging on the closet door. It was too big, and the easiest way to get my money back was to head to my local mall, except my local mall is the Columbia, Md. mall where the fatal shooting occurred last Saturday. Let me …

Sometimes I feel like I was a bear in past life. Come January, I just want to hibernate. It doesn’t help that Downton Abbey and Sherlock were on last night, with three straight hours of British TV goodness. Somehow, my boss, my kids, and the rest of society don’t really allow me to check out …

If I were starting out again and I wanted to choose my career by the numbers, I’d consider computers, and I’d head south. The Daytona Beach area, 24 percent of companies plan to hire (compared to 13 percent nation-wide), according to a recent Manpower survey. Austin Texas and other areas of Florida and Texas are …

Being ambitious about working part-time and fitting another life (in my case, raising a family) is not easy, but I think technology is a key way of staying current and creating that life for ourselves. Explore Online Training. I’ve got continuing ed credits to do each year to maintain my national certification as a counselor, …