It's coming on tax time and if you drive at all for business, you'll want to be sure to log your miles for 2009, so you can legitimately deduct the cost of driving your car from your income. For 2009, the IRS mileage allowance is as follows: 55 cents per mile for business miles driven 24 cents per m...

Somewhere in the late 80s, my first husband taught me to golf, and I discovered something countless people already knew. Golf is hard! In fact, it's the most difficult sport I've ever learned, with the possible exception of hang gliding, but that's a whole other (horrible scraped-and-bloody-legs) st...

Action action, we want action! A-C-T! (clapclapclap) I-O-N!  I'm soooo not a cheerleader. I admit, I tried out in sixth grade but just wasn't quite good enough to make the squad. Damn the pretty girls! (No worries, I got over it.) Today I am a cheerleader though, for my clients and anyone who w...

 With technology changing so rapidly, it's hard to know how to dispose of it when you want to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Who among us doesn't have an old digital camera, camcorder, laptop, computer monitor, or even batteries you're not using? If so, why not declutter your cabinets and ...

As I was walking through my neighborhood last week, I decided to turn around and walk a few of the gentle slopes backward. I sometimes do that because walking backward works different muscles in my legs and breaks the monotony of just walking. As I was making my trek up the street, I felt uncomforta...

Do you ever pull a piece of clothing out of your closet and then when you need to return it, do you have a hard time finding the empty hanger again? An easy way to help you find the empty hanger and return the item to the same spot is to remove the hanger and turn it parallel to the shelf where it c...

Closets are one of my favorite projects to dig my hands into. I love them because unlike a garage or basement, a closet can typically be completed in a single session. Gotta love that instant gratification! I also love working in and redesigning clothing closets specifically, because you interact wi...

We're one week out from Christmas and we're only three days out from the beginning of Hanukkah, so if you're a gift-buyer, chances are you're already finished. However, I have a feeling that out there among my gozillions of faithful readers, there must be one or maybe even two people who are Last Mi...

Well, Black Friday is over for another year. And gosh, only one guy was trampled and two others were shot. That's only three people dead this year. Go figure. That makes it quite a bit blacker, don't you think? Do NOT get me started on the whole concept of Black Friday (a tradition in which I firmly...

A little while back, when I wrote about guilty pleasures, you learned a few of mine are television shows, mostly in the reality genre. One of the best of these is Intervention which airs on Bravo. Each episode centers around the intervention of a person whose life is in total chaos due to drug or al...