This was my morning read. I really found this story to be heart warming. Separated by years and oceans, pen pals reconnect.

This weekend April 17, 2011 I participated in a Project Appleseed Rifle event. My son Michael (17), Annie (16) and me the mom (58). Why we went?  It was a chance to study about American heritage and the skills that brought the country to where it is today and to learn about marksmanship.  The marksmanship training was [...]

After many years of driving a large luxury SUV I decided it was time for a new car. My kids are also at the age that they need a car to learn in. The Navigator is just too big for them to drive. When I went to a gas station I could never fill up [...]

In the 16th century, drawers became a common term for both men’s and women’s underpants. Made of linen, the items were no-frills and looked more or less interchangeable (this being well before Victoria ever had a secret; decorative lace trim started appearing on the garments only in the middle of the 19th century). Most likely, [...]

Once upon a time, ladies stored their essentials in a little waist sack tied under their clothing (sort of an early ancestor of the fanny pack) and accessible through slits in their skirts. Around 1800, thinner, silkier fabrics and slimmer cuts came into vogue, and women could no longer hide the bulging sacks around their midsections. [...]

The term pump first popped up in 1550 in England, where male servants sported the style. It is said that the noise they made while wearing the loose-fitting shoes resembled the sound of a water pump. The word sneaker entered the language in the 1870s; the rubber soles made the shoes quiet and therefore “sneaky.” [...]

Bored Palm Beach socialite Lilly Pulitzer opened a juice stand in 1959 to pass the time, but she found one drawback: The citrus concoctions discolored her clothes. She instructed her dressmaker to create a uniform that would camouflage the bright stains, and the “Lilly” design — sleeveless cotton shifts in vibrant prints — was born. [...]

Not quite: The most widely held theory is that the single-strapped footwear was named for a character in “Buster Brown,” a children’s comic strip that was popular in the early 1900s. Mary Jane was either Buster Brown’s sweetheart or sister, depending on which source you consult.

In 1977 University of Vermont student Lisa Lindahl was running 30 miles a week — and her bra wasn’t holding up. With the help of two classmates, Lindahl sewed together two jock straps and — presto! — the sports bra was born. The coeds founded the company Jogbra a year later, garnering eternal gratitude from exercise-loving women [...]

How would you like to have or give your child or family member black aluminum wallet cards that custom engraved with your 20 most critical contacts and phone numbers. This card is virtually indestructible and will provide access to your important numbers when digital phone books are unavailable. You can have engraved your, “in case [...]

When the economy slowed down I needed to speed up my ideas. On my Birthday January 4th, 2009 I started Braille Awards and Menu transcribing. This so happens to be the day the Louis Braille was born over 200 years ago. I needed to find a niche that I would be passionate about. When my [...]

I write now with a son going into his Senior year and my daughter will soon be a Jr. They have both been at this school since 7th grade. I must say that this school is truly preparing them for the hardest of hard college. I am honored that my kids will graduate from the Orange [...]

Today I received a call from someone that needed help with attracting trade-show traffic. They wanted to keep women and men in the booth. I asked your standard questions about what they are selling? What color is the booth and the design of it? Will each of the people working in the booth have a [...]

Trust, isn’t this suppose to be what brings people together? This whole trust thing isn’t going very well, from hanky panky to stealing fortunes to the priest that we take bread from while kneeling in prayer. We all want to trust. You would think from what is going on in the world we all would be [...]

While listing to the radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlesinger’s rant of the day was about people that talk during a movie and how rude they are when you ask them to be more quiet. She was right on about how rude the youth of today is. I was at the movies withmy two teenagers over the weekend [...]

I have been in the promotional products industry since 1983. I love it but I also don’t need to work. I want to work and this comes across to the client that I am not desperate.  I put money away from each sale for a rainy day. This really helps. My passion and experience is designing [...]

It has been two years since I wrote this story about living in a guard gated community and with the many houses that have been sold taking with them people that needed to leave and bringing in fresh new people who have no idea what is ahead.  One neighbor that left after she poisoned the neighborhood of [...]

Awards…Did you know that this is one of my greatest passions? Awards yup the ones that you should receive when you have gone above and beyond. Here is the story.  I used to work for a company and I was in sales. In fact I was their top sales person for this year. I was very excited. [...]

Ready set blog. Have you noticed that people that have nice cars are not driving with a smile? They have this frown on their face and they do not look happy at all. You look at them and smile and they have this look on their face of  I am too cool to smile or [...]