Make Your Vacation Home Dreams A Reality
Imagine a summer filled with beautiful sunsets, no television, sandy floors and happy, tired children. A vacation home can provide families with a place to re-charge, build memories and enjoy life’s simple pleasures. It’s a timeless summer experience. If you’re considering purchasing a vacation home, you’ll be happy to know that there are many mortgage...
Continue ReadingWhat’s Your Story?
For the past two summers I’ve been fortunate to be a coach partner with Wayne State University’s Employment Transition Program. This innovative program combines training (resume writing, interviewing, etc.) with support, including four one-on-one, individualized coaching sessions with an experienced career coach. The program participants are white-collar...
Continue ReadingThe Hidden Heart
How often do we overlook the true essence of someone ― the hidden heart? In our busy, busy lives, we zoom from one activity to another, from one quick conversation to another. One of my former clients has toiled away for years in an analytical job. When she’s in the middle of a project and someone interrupts her, I’m sure she is perceived as gruff and...
Continue ReadingLove & Money – Three Things to Ask Your One And Only This Valentine’s Day
February always makes us think of chocolates and flowers and all things love. Now that you have found your true love, it might be time for the talk. Not that talk, but the talk about your financial compatibility. Disagreements about money are often a topic most couples argue about and can cause serious problems for the future of your relationship. How your...
Continue ReadingA New Twist on New Year’s Resolutions
“Reinvention isn’t only for celebrities or musicians or athletes — reinvention is for all humanity. All of us should strive for a newer and better self. Just constantly take our lives to the next level.” This quote (Parade magazine, 1-17-10) from my new favorite philosopher, LL Cool J, speaks to the essence of New Year’s resolutions. The...
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Five Easy Ways to Keep the Holidays Affordable
It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again, but the holiday season is right around the corner. If you’re like me, you get a little stressed with all the holiday get-togethers, shopping and spending. Thankfully, there are some simple ways to maintain your sanity and keep the holidays affordable this year. 1. Set a budget for the holidays. Budgeting...
Continue ReadingCAWLM’s 3rd Annual Mother & Daughter High Tea
Mothers and daughters joined CAWLM staff to honor the remarkable women who have enabled us to become who we are. The event included a high tea with dainty sandwiches and treats from Silver Service Catering. The attending women were the 15 winners from the Mother Daughter High Tea Contest. The event also included an address from CAWLM’s Image Focus columnist,...
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Where Will Your Loved One Call Home?
Choosing a comfortable, caring senior living environment has never been easier. With so many options available, you and your loved one can decide what care facility is the right fit for their needs. When to Choose a Facility Sometimes it’s easy to recognize when a parent or family member may require elderly care. They may have difficulty making meals...
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Comfortable Home Equals a Comfortable Mind
Home sweet home—I find that saying comforting. Yet, like many others, I feel like I spend more time away from my home than in it. As a mother of three, some of my time is spent running kids to and fro. As a business woman, I spend a lot of time at the office, in the radio station and at community events. Many times I get home so exhausted that I don’t...
Continue ReadingNonprofit: Shared Pregnancy
Worried. Confused. Lost. That is what many women are feeling when they arrive at the center. When someone walks through the door of the house-turned-center on Walnut Street in downtown Lansing, she sees bright colors, baby items along the wall and friendly faces willing to help. The Shared Pregnancy Women’s Center has been helping pregnant women in the greater...
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Lisa Williams: Saving Our Home Sweet Home
Around 8:15 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 13, Lisa Williams received an exciting phone call: a great blue heron had been rescued near Marshall, Michigan, and was on its way to the wildlife rehabilitation center where she currently is stationed as the director. The great blue heron was wrapped securely in a white terrycloth towel and tucked into a navy blue animal...
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What’s Your Work Style?
Would you describe yourself as fast-paced or moderately-paced? Are you more focused on people or on the task at hand? These dimensions form the basis of the popular DiSC® workstyle assessment. Based on the work of William Moulton Marston, the DiSC worksyle profiles have been used by more than 50 million people in 50 countries. DiSC ® is a simple, yet insightful...
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