Ironically, I feel a little embarrassed posting about how to regain confidence. But why even have a blog if you can’t share embarrassing things once in a while, right? If you get my newsletter, you know that for 2022, I chose Confidence for my personal word for the year. In fact, exude confidence is #1 on my list of 22
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
This Chicago bucket list got a little longer than I expected. There are so many unique and cool things to do in Chicago for adults or for families, including cheap or free things and things that are fun to do alone. This post is actually a collaboration between me and my husband Gill Donovan. And of course, we’ve still barely
Do you think of yourself as a book lover…even though your book reading has slowed down to a trickle? Here’s my advice for becoming your happy bookworm self again! Schoolchildren in the United States are back in school again, and I figured this was a good time for a “how to read a lot” post. 🙂 [AdSense-B] For most of
One of the best things about life is that you can change yourself completely. At any stage…at the age of 18, or 40, or 50, or 60, or even 100…without moving to a different town or a different job…you can redefine yourself. There’s a great quote by George Bernard Shaw: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Hey friends! Let’s talk about bookshelf decor! This is a roundup of fun ideas for bookshelf styling, including some things that are on my own bookcases. My husband and I just gave away a few hundred books. We did it to reduce our bill to the moving company when we moved from LA to the Chicago suburbs. It had been
Hey friends! Let’s talk about how to be more positive. I have some simple and practical suggestions to prompt your brain to think more positive thoughts. But first, I have a couple of things to say about positivity. It isn’t something you achieve once and for all. Positivity is something you have to work at (and even re-learn, sometimes.) I’m
For people who have known me a while, it seems like I just moved out to Los Angeles. That’s not true, though: we moved from Kansas City to L.A. a little under three years ago. I felt like I had to do it for work, in part due to some weird circumstances, and in part because no one was used