4 Ways to Help a Child Become Smarter

According to research, there are four things you can do to help a child be smarter:

Discovering Fun Gifts for the Holidays

I don’t always have time to find awesome items on my own, especially when trying to use the scarce resource of brainpower this time of year for finding gifts for friends and family. I can’t even think of what cool things there might be sometimes, so I use a few…

Expressing Thanks

When I was in undergrad, I worked for a woman cleaning her house a few hours every week. While I worked for her, we formed a positive relationship, one that continues today even though I no longer clean her house. She was a great example for me of a great boss, and one of the things that she did…

Refuse Register Receipts… or Wear Gloves to Accept Them

Happy Birthday to Me

I turned 30 years old this weekend. The number actually doesn’t bother me. Turning 27 bothered me, actually, because I…

A Young Reader’s Christmas List

I’m not planning to give my daughter anything for Christmas because she wants it; I’m going to get her a few things (aka books) because I want to read them with her. This Christmas should be the easiest, I hope, for me as a parent since my daughter is almost one and a one…