Mary's Blog

Whether you are a wife and mother, student, business owner, full-time employee, war veteran, or healer in a third-world country, each person is given twenty-four hours in a day.  No more, no less.  Why do some people accomplish so much more in a day, a month, a year, a lifetime than others?  It’s...

    Wallpaper will date your home more quickly than almost anything.  Tiny bud roses?  Definitely the 80s.  Southwestern?  A trend from the 90s.  Oranges and avocado greens?  Unfortunate color scheming from the 60s and 70s. For decades smooth, plain walls have been plastered with stripes, florals...

  It’s been a rough couple years for real estate. As millions of Americans struggle to make payments on mortgages worth more than their homes, it’s easy to declare real estate an imprudent investment. However, the collapse in home values experienced in the last couple years owes more to the off-t...