As a young married couple with no children, my husband and I didn’t give Halloween and trick-r-treating a moment’s thought.  We’d make plans to go to happy hour and parties on the night of Halloween leaving our dog to bark at any brave soul who approached our darken house. Each house on the block would [...]

 
I used to tell my kid brother that the only weeks that mattered in school were the first two weeks. If you present yourself to a teacher properly in the first two weeks of class then you can give her the image that you are smart, organized, on top of things and interested in her [...]

You and your spouse have finally settled on most of the details of your new house plans. However, you’re stuck on what to do with the garage. You have the perfect vision of how you want the space to look but your spouse just isn’t going for it.
Here are some tricks to try to convince [...]

For whatever reason, when I was 16, my girlfriend at the time managed to wrangle me into running for the student body office positions that were opened up. I was only a Junior and the school was smaller than most, so it was assumed that the older statesmen would always win – but for whatever [...]

I hate cleaning. I won’t make any qualms about it. I simply despise waking up on the weekend and knowing that I have to spend most of the day cleaning something or another around the house. And due to a coin flip I lost when I first moved into my house about five years ago, [...]