Anyone but me excited about the upcoming 2010 NASCAR season?!
Sunday marks the season opener, the Daytona 500. Or, to racing fans, the High Holy Day of Racing. Most sports have their big day at the end of the season, but NASCAR does it big for the opener. Besides the race, there’s all kinds of great [...]

The start of this year has been COLD, to say the least. As I’m typing, my fingers are cold and I’m bundled up. You might think, so, what’s the big deal? It’s cold everywhere. The deal is that I live in FLORIDA and it’s not supposed to be this cold. In the last ten days, [...]

I took a few wonderful moments from my busy day to sit before the Christmas tree. As the lights twinkled and the ornaments gleamed, I couldn’t help but think back to Christmas from the past. I closed my eyes and took mental inventory of the things that mean the most to me this time [...]

It’s been a long while since I posted to the Clever Diva blog. In early September, my daughter was diagnosed with melanoma. She is in the Air Force, stationed in Virginia. Needless to say, I’ve been back and forth to be with her numerous times since then. Late September she had the area and some [...]

Is it just me or did July fly by? I remember July 4th and then…bam, it was August! Summer is always a time filled with so many activities or family vacations that the months blur into fast moving days. I’m not complaining. I love hanging out with my family. I love the laid-back feeling that [...]

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss my dad. He went Home five years ago, but I still think about him often, wonder what he’d say about the things I’ve accomplished in my life since he’s been gone, hear something funny and imagine how he would smile. He always had a [...]

Summer may not officially start until June 21, but around here, the kids got out of school last week, making that date the official start of summer. If you have children, you know how much they look forward to the last day of school. And being a parent, I always look at this as a [...]

This month I had a birthday. For most people, this brings lots of joy. Like when I get that yearly card from a life-long friend. Or the phone call from my nieces singing happy birthday to me. Or a surprise cake at work. I had a small party with my family and friends and thought, [...]

My daughter needed some reference material for a research paper and asked me to go to the library with her. Always ready to spend time with my youngest, I readily went along, only to be pleasantly surprised.
 
When I walked through the door and inhaled the scent of books, I was swept back to my childhood. [...]

It seems that you can’t read a newspaper or watch the news without being bombarded by dire financial news. True, we are in tough times right now and the media thrives on news that seems hard to handle, but there are real, constructive ways we can deal with lean financial times.
 
This is an opportune [...]