Un-Pause It!

      I spend a good deal of time taxiing my kids around Boulder County, as I’m sure you can relate to. To keep the backseat squabbles in check, I decided to play the girls an audiobook on the way to school. Audible.com gave me a free gift of Anne...

Art Appreciation

Art Appreciation was the class in school that everyone took for that “easy A” to pump up their GPA. How hard it is to appreciate art, right? It couldn’t be harder than a chemistry class. What a terrible mistake to dismiss great art like that. My good...

Tougher than whale dung

My In-Laws visited over the Labor Day weekend, and I had plenty of items on my Honey-Do List for Grandpa Ray to help me complete. While Grandma Leanne was in the kitchen whipping up delectable meals for the holiday, Ray and I headed out to the backyard to clear out a...

3 Simple Fixes for Black Belt Performance

Most of our martial-arts-parents are not Black Belts (unlike Ms. Michelle), and, as such, many parents believe they cannot help their child improve her martial arts performance. It’s true, it takes a Black Belt to make Black Belts, but it doesn’t take a...