• How to set goals and SUCCEED

    University of Scranton research suggests that just 8% of people achieve their New Year’s goals. Thank you University of Scranton for that bit of motivation, I am sure you are also going to tell me my marriage has a 50% chance…

  • 2014 Nothing “New” Challenge

    I set out many goals for myself in the crazy year of 2014, but one of the most fun ones was the challenge to buy “nothing new”.  Back in 2012, I made a challenge for myself to not shop for…

  • A look back at 2014

    There was A LOT that happened in 2014…almost too much to handle.  I got married to an amazing man and accomplished some pretty lofty goals I set out for myself.  To see all the goals, visit my 2014 Goals tab. …

  • Happy Holidays!

    Can you believe next week is Christmas? WHAT? When did that happen?  Since I am married to Clark Griswold, I usually feel like we celebrate Christmas for waaaaay too long.  But this year, with the little incident we had with…

  • Blessed.

    A little over a week ago, I sat in the same spot I am right now and wrote a blog post about being thankful that I had time to slow down, as I had been feeling very overwhelmed and stressed…

  • “vacation”

    Since my marathon…(oh ya know over two months ago) I have been having a little “vacation”.  No, not the tropical beach kind..the kind of vacation that makes you want to stay as far away as possible from a tropical beach…

  • We are the SAME.

    For those of you not familiar with the admission field, it is  currently that time of year where most admission counselors/college reps are what we like to call “on the road”.  On the road in high schools doing classroom presentations,…

  • How did I get here?

    Do you ever catch yourself in a moment and wonder…“How did I get here?”.  How did I get to be this age? How did I get to this place?  It is almost as if the years happen in the blink…

  • Boston Qualifer, Boston Hopeful.

    I am going to be honest.  I didn’t want to write about this.  I didn’t want to post about it.  But for the last month I have gotten similar questions quite often “When does Boston training start?  Did you book…