How to Gain Control of your Free Time by Laura Vanderkam is possibly one of the most useful Ted Talks I've watched in a while. If you can't spare the 12 minutes it takes to watch it, here are the facts: Your Time: You have 168 hours a week to spend. That's a fact. Subtract how many hours a week you work, sleep, and spend on essential chores. What you have left is "free" time. This is time you … [Read more...]
The Amsterdam Getaway That Almost Wasn’t
Where are you?! I nearly missed my flight to Amsterdam for a long weekend getaway with my husband, who was working in Poland. He planned to meet me at the Amsterdam airport on Friday. I was terribly mixed up, thinking I would fly out from Detroit on Friday evening and arrive Friday morning; for some idiotic reason, I thought the US was 8 hours ahead of Amsterdam when actually it's only six hours, … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Patricia Gapske
What: I’m an artist who loves to draw, take photographs and create sculptures, and within each of those is a subcategory of different materials and processes that I use. I used to think that I needed to focus all of my energy on one specific medium but that never worked for me. I felt like I was holding my creativeness captive for others' ideals and not my own. I took an art class in high … [Read more...]
Listen To Your Mother Metro Detroit Recap
On April 30th, 2017, I had the honor of sharing the stage with a dozen other brave and honest women at Saint Andrews Hall in Detroit for the Grand Finale Season of Listen To Your Mother, a national, live storytelling event. Unfortunately the budget didn't allow for the "massive endeavor requiring thousands of woman-hours" for video, but we have pictures... and stories. The stories will live … [Read more...]
Handsewn Treasures
Mom was a saver Thelma was sentimental. She'd saved so many of my favorite toys, books, artwork, cards, and dolls... even a confirmation dress and two prom gowns, in her basement and bedroom closets. When she passed away in 2013, I brought the boxes back to my house and tucked them away in a closet, intending to go through them later. Recently I pulled out the Barbie suitcase that held Barbie and … [Read more...]
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