I spent the weekend escaping the heat and enjoying the mountain air and cooler temperatures with my little family in Park City.  We ate and swam and laughed and explored with dear friends.  It was exactly what we needed after one seriously stressful and busy summer.  I didn’t want it to end! Top | Jeans […]

I spent the weekend escaping the heat and enjoying the mountain air and cooler temperatures with my little family in Park City.  We ate and swam and laughed and explored with dear friends.  It was exactly what we needed after one seriously stressful and busy summer.  I didn’t want it to end! Top | Jeans […]

I think every parent has dreams for their child. Hopes and prayers for happiness, success, love, and joy. And every mother has things they hope their little one will always remember. No matter what hardships and heartaches they face, which they surely will, that they will never forget their true worth. I have these hopes […]

It’s August.  August people!  Where has summer gone?  And while we’re talking about things disappearing, that baby of mine?  A baby no more.  Ruby is full blown toddler.  She walks with conviction.  She eats her weight in watermelon.  And she’s wearing pigtails– pigtails I tell you!  They make her look like a teenager….. and they’re […]

You can make a lot of plans. You can have big dreams and go after them with all your might but sometimes, there is just a different path for you. One you may not have dreamed for yourself but once you’re there, you can see that’s where you were meant to be all along. That’s […]

Leaving my television news career has been a trial in careful self examination.  It has forced me to look closely at my goals, the motivation behind them, and put the last 8 years of my life under a microscope.  For many years I have been narrowly focussed on achieving professional success– reaching a level of […]

Mental illness: those two words carry a lot of weight. When you read them, you may think of a homeless man, talking to himself, without control over his emotions or actions. And sometimes that depiction is accurate. Sadly, many of America’s homeless population suffers from some kind of mental illness. Over the years, I have […]

Working from home isn’t for wussies.  With an adventurous toddler at your ankles, a laptop balancing on your knees and Sesame Street playing in the background you try, unsuccessfully, to reply to a single email– even a simple sentence.  And yet mother of two small girls, Briana Stewart isn’t just making it work, she’s making […]

“You’ve missed the boat,” he said flatly. At least it was as flat as his raspy, over-used, chronic smoker’s voice could express tone. “He” was my news director, a silver-mullet-headed, rail thin, straight out of the 70’s man with a constant half-eaten package of donut holes on his desk and a gross, re-used waterbottle in […]