I remember well the house hunting process my husband and I embarked upon seventeen years ago. Giddy with the realization that houses would be a lot more affordable in Houston than they were in Austin, we cast a wide net. However, budget-wise, the sky was not the limit.

I wanted to do something that would be fun for me and fun for you. Which brings me to a haiku.

Maybe you are one of those people who wish that “killing them with kindness” was an actual thing. It is a time of high passions and short fuses, and for this reason kindness is something that needs to be cultivated right now. Here are four takeaways to jumpstart the joy of generosity. Read the rest […]

I have always been a big fan of disaster movies. Of course, it is escapism – and maybe as a professor put it on Livescience.com, that “the apocalypse is always reserved for ‘the other,’” but these movies are also a welcome respite from today’s actual mayhem. You can be sure that Contagion won’t appear on […]