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  • Lasting Impressions

    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 12:55 Author: Charlotte Cole
      Think about an image of yourself that was engraved in your mind from way back. In many cases it can be quite awful and it could have left an impression that has occupied too much space in your mind since the moment you heard it. I know a woman wh...

  • My Mom's Advice that I Foolishly Resisted: "Get Good Help!"

    Created: Monday, 21 December 2009 14:23 Author: Admin
    When I was a new mom, my own mom repeatedly said, “Get good help”. The lingering adolescent in me (mind you I was in my early 20‟s) was like “yeah, yeah, yeah what do you know?” Now I‟m in my 40‟s, with four children and I‟m finally matur...

  • Stepping Up to The Plate: Stepfamilies

    Created: Monday, 14 December 2009 16:30 Author: Charlotte Cole
          When I was five years old my parents divorced; when I was ten my father remarried.  I was very excited about the new union, along with it came an additional set of siblings and a new house.  Frankly the shear fact that my dad was not going...

  • The Many Colors of America

    Created: Monday, 07 December 2009 01:54 Author: Charlotte Cole
    Having updated our house to sell after thirteen years of inhabiting it and purchasing a neglected foreclosure, I have personally been saturated in home-construction.  In choosing a contractor, I took a road that was different for me and went with...