Love + Marriage

I ushered in my 40th birthday in 2019.  I opted for a weekend away in New York City with just my husband – full of musicals and amazing food, topped off with a midnight birthday toast at a cool rooftop bar. It was absolute perfection. As I approached 40 though, I started to feel a change.  An internal shift....

My daughter hasn’t stopped chatting my ear off about how she wants to get glitter folders for school this year. For my soon-to-be 2nd grader, the back-to-school season is nearly as exciting as the holidays. My son, an incoming...

Hope is a very precious thing, and one that we all need in our lives, always.  Hope is an optimistic attitude and desire for a certain thing to happen. It’s a rare commodity right now, especially with the hot...

It wasn’t even six months ago that I sat in a large ballroom with colleagues from the hotel company I work for. We were seated arm-to-arm (who could have guessed what a novelty that would become?) as we listened to a risk...

By: Gabrielle Gardiner  Achieving work-life balance isn’t easy, especially without our normal routines. Now that remote work has been the norm for quite some time, it’s crucial to make sure the whole family strives for healthy habits. For parents struggling...

By: Ashley Dillman Bruce, a divorce and family law attorney at Bruce Law Firm, with offices in  West Palm Beach and Wellington You know that feeling after it’s been raining all week with days of endless gray clouds, and then suddenly the clouds dissipate and...

I taught first grade for almost 20 years and loved every minute of it. At the end of each school year when I asked my students their favorite activity from the year it would always be Show and Tell,...

I will never forget the moment I heard health officials instruct the public to practice Social distancing. We were instructed to stay home, avoid crowds and distance ourselves from people outside our nuclear family. Then, one by one everything...

June 28, 2006, was a day like any other.  I was 26 years old and working for a luxury resort as a recruiting manager.  I had amazing siblings, nieces and nephews whom I adored, growth in a job with an...

Confession - I'm not what you would call a "crafty" mom.  I don't own a Cricut.  I've never cut sandwiches into shapes or designed a nursery worthy of a Pinterest save.  And honestly for a long time, I felt...