By Myla Madson
I tell you, my oldest daughter is something else. Last summer she would wake up at the crack of dawn and ride her bike to the mall. It was only a short distance away and she would ride with friends so it wasn’t so much a safety concern I was having, but rather how uncomfortable I felt about her hanging out at the mall all day and not doing something more constructive with her time.
When she started coming home with new shoes, Ipods and various trinkets, I really …

By Suzanne Harrison
Are there any writers out there who don’t want to make money from writing? Who don’t want to earn a living from their writing? Who don’t want to become rich from their writing?
Well, there probably are. And that’s fine. But this article isn’t for them. This article is for you. You who knows that you can’t wake up in the morning without the itch in your fingers, can’t get through the day without putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, you who can’t listen to a …

I have always wondered about the way people spend their Friday nights. For many of us it is the end of a hard week of working, a weekend of freedom is in sight, and the desire to let loose has taken over.
Some like to go really wild. Maybe that means dinner at a restaurant and the latest movie. Maybe that means a bar and lots of drinking. Maybe that means a trip to the ball game and then finishing off the evening on a dance floor somewhere. But the pervading …

Ok, if we have been honest, we realize that we might be driven to accumulate things, and that our closets and desks and lives seem cluttered as a result. Or maybe not. Maybe it is just me and your neighbor. So what do we do?
I know that I often wish I could start over. I remember as a kid getting frustrated with how my video game was going and jamming the restart button. I loved save points. Any time I messed up I could start the game over from …

Is your desk clean?
You have always tried to defend your messy desk by saying, “I know where everything is!” If that is true, then put those things in an ordered place. The only thing that is keeping you from doing that is…
I am the worst. My desk is a horrible mess with stacks of papers, books, unopened mail, folders, loose paper clips and a million other things, it seems. I can’t find anything when I want to. It’s always a day later when it shows up right where I thought …