Family is a major part of your happiness and the family room is where you spend time with them. Those whom you love the most (and who probably drive you crazy at times), are the same individuals you can walk around in your pj’s without your teeth brushed, no make up and crazy hair. You [...]

How does the basement affect your happiness? According to ,”The basement is where all your childhood hurts and torments are stowed away in cabinets and under the stairs. You would rather not revisit them, but you have to in order to understand how you think and feel today.” We all have something in our lives [...]

“Getting out of the box” is not the same thing as “thinking outside of the box.” At least not at Zagrum, a highly successful company with a mysterious initiation meeting for all new employees. Tom Callum soon learns that he has a problem—a problem that he was completely unaware of. But he isn’t alone. “Of [...]

The best Italian food I ever ate was in Mexico. It was during a power outage, a rain storm, and a traffic jam. When the power went out in the restaurant they didn’t kick everyone out. Instead the waiter carried on like it happened every day. Perhaps it did. My friend Ben and I sat [...]

This is the perfect after school snack! This recipe was inspired by a  Better Homes and Gardens booklet I found. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups water 1/3 cup shortening 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 4 eggs 3/4 cup (3oz) finely chopped pepperoni (I only had half the amount on hand and thought it still turned out [...]

Sugar cookies have always seemed so bland to me unless you added lots of frosting. My mind was changed when eating a friends cookies a couple years ago. I immediately got a copy of her recipe and have been using it ever since. I was excited to pull out the recipe to make for the [...]