Use these efficiency lessons I learned from waiting tables to bring order to your own home — I have a very tidy house. When guests are coming over, there’s no mad dash to clean up. I may pick up a thing or two, but for the most part, my house stays presentable. I also have a young child. And a very sloppy husband. How do I do…

…and still get lots of fun adult time — I’ve been on many not-so-fun vacations with my daughter. These trips took a lot of planning and were eagerly anticipated…and yet by the end, I was just aggravated and exhausted. So much of what we did center around what would make Beatrice happy. A trip to a new city inevitably…

And why it matters. — Not knowing what you want As you say hmmmmm and start scanning your menu — your waiter is staring at the empty glass at the table across the room they could be filling, or thinking about the beer order they need to ring in. …

Taking a Chance with a Stranger — Deborah must have been out of her mind, leaving the club with this man. A stranger. It was Traci’s fault. Traci with her Don’t be a square and her You’ll regret it if you don’t go with him. In fact, the whole girl’s night had also been Traci’s idea. …

Improve your reading skills to become a better writer — The immersive reader is a full-screen reading experience to increase the readability of content. It was designed to support students with dyslexia and dysgraphia in the classroom, but it can help anyone who wants to increase their fluency or needs help decoding more complex texts. …

Sometimes being a lazy mom pays off — One day I was at the playground with another Mom friend. Our kids tumbled over to us clamoring for snacks, and we both pulled out our collection of offerings, the arsenal of food Moms quickly learn to always travel with. I opened up our stainless steel cup (because I’m the…

How I learned to stop obsessing over the scale — Before beginning a new fitness and diet program, I reluctantly took my “before” photo and dutifully recorded my measurements. But all I really cared about was the scale. I jumped on first thing every morning and recorded it into an app. After a month, I had only lost six pounds…

What’s a Girl To Do? — Laying in bed at night, scrolling through my Facebook feed, I encountered an article about the hazards of plastic. In a nutshell, the article claimed that chemical exposure from plastics leads to cancer, birth defects, fertility problems, immune system suppression, and developmental problems in children. There were some scientific looking…

How to provide better curriculum for every student using TpT — I discovered the online marketplace called Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) in 2009. At first, I was a buyer …a frenzied first-year teacher searching madly for something — anything to engage my students with the next day. What teacher hasn’t had that 11:00 p.m. panic attack when they realize they completely…