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Heart Month
February is Heart Month! Heart Month 2025 is a month-long initiative focused on heart health and cardiovascular disease prevention. Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Heart Month has a long history dating back to the 1960s when it was initiated by the American Heart Association (AHA) in the United States. Since then, it […]
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What to Know Before You File
Happy Groundhog Day! It’s here – tax season opened on January 27th for individual filers in the United States. Here is information about what to know before you file to get you in the “mood”! The IRS has created a page called Get Ready to File Your Taxes reminding us that tax planning is for […]
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Your Stuff
Let’s talk about your stuff today! Yes, stuff! Your things, possessions, personal property – everything you accumulate over time. How important are things to you? The past few months have been a wake-up call for many of us. Watching cities and communities in the Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee, and California wiped out is overwhelming. A place […]
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Travel Updates
Travel has been a part of my life since I was little! For those traveling in 2025, there are two important travel updates I want to bring to your attention. Beginning January 8, 2025, the U.K. will require an electronic travel authorization (ETA) for visitors from countries including the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. […]
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Inclement Weather
What a week of inclement weather coast to coast. Fires consuming multiple areas of Los Angeles County, to ice and snow covering the south is an ominous start to 2025 😔 Fire and Ice Pixabay.com As a former Angelino, who now lives 90 miles south of LA, here is a fact and a little history […]
Read MoreDaily Routines
2024 flew by for me! The New Year of 2025 is here and what a great time to create daily routines that allow joy! Benefits of Daily Routines When reading about the benefits of daily routines, I didn’t see joy on the list 🤷🏻♀️Along with joy, other benefits include: Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash […]
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Looking Ahead
Here we are—the last Sunday of 2024! There were two news items that broke this week to be aware of. I have a quick update today about the BOI reporting I wrote about weeks back. This week, there was an important update to the BOI reporting information: a court decision to lift the pause for […]
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The Dash
I reacquainted myself with The Dash recently. I went onto to Etsy to purchase Linda Ellis’ signed poem she penned in 1996. This poem is a reminder about the small dash that connects the year of a person’s birth and the year of their death on a tombstone. The dash represents the time spent living […]
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