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Cycling Southern Utah
Mountain biking in the desert of Southern Utah isn’t a traditional Thanksgiving activity, but it certainly is one worth considering. I had a blast! Let me tell you about it… First; Southern Utah is a mountain biker’s heaven. From the western corner of St. George, just two-hours drive from Las Vegas, across to Moab on the east side, Utah has a lot to offer when it comes to riding for activity, sport, or sight-seeing. Utah boasts some of the most picturesque trail riding in the world, including petrified sand dunes, wooded forest, deeply-eroded canyons and high mountain tops. All colored in brilliant red sand and world-class geology. With a hundred…
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Looking Back I Made the Right Choices After All!
When I became a mom, I immediately felt the push-pull between making the right career choices and doing what was best for my kids. On the career side, it was a time when flexible schedules, job sharing, or work from home were concepts, just beginning to creep into the work environment…and that’s if you were lucky enough to be working for a forward-thinking enterprise. No, if you wanted to become upper management material (and I did), you had to arrive before everyone else, and leave when you looked up from your desk and saw the janitor coming down the hallway. Then there was the pull from wanting to be a…
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Business Bookkeeping for Your Home-Based Business (Part 1)
Business Bookkeeping for Your Home-Based Business (Part 1) Now that you have decided to start your own home-based business (I think you were crocheting blankets in our last example) you need to set up a few basic procedures to ensure that your recordkeeping is complete and accurate. You do not need an accounting degree to accomplish this. Keep Seperate Bank Accounts: My first piece of advice is to get a separate bank account for all business activity. This is vital. This is important even if your business is set up as a sole proprietorship; essentially YOU are the business. Many home-based business owners believe that since the money to…
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Toward the Stars: Empowering Girls
It’s not often you come across a person who so believes in their vision so much that they are willing to put it all on the line to make it a reality. Ines Almeida, the creator of Toward the Stars, is such a person. Her journey to create a global marketplace for empowering gifts for girls has been one of determination and hard work. She quit her job and put all of her life savings into Toward The Stars because of her desire to create a venue with a single purpose: to help reduce all threats to girlhood that crush our girls’ true nature and potential. The New Girlie-Girl…
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The Magic of Christmas at Roger’s Garden
We are fortunate to have a gorgeous nursery down the street from where we live called Roger’s Garden. Every year we head over there during Christmas time to check out their holiday decor to get ideas to decorate our house. They have rooms upon rooms filled with the most beautiful ornaments, trees and so much more! I had a chance to speak to Nava Rezvan, their marketing manager, about what it takes to prepare for their expected 250,000 guests that come through their doors during the holiday season. She explained that their team will travel the world to find the most beautiful and diverse collection of ornaments that they use to decorate their twenty-five…
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Dandelion Moms Launch Giveaway
We wanted to celebrate the re-launch of dandelion moms with a fun holiday giveaway. The idea to create a lifestyle website was on my mind for about a year. I wanted to bring what I had learned on the yoga mat – about being present and mindful – onto a platform that other women could experience. As women, we tend to wear so many hats and sometimes being present is not part of the picture. We worry about what we did or didn’t do and forget sometimes to just slow down and enjoy it. With dandelion moms I hope to create a place that women can share in their journey and inspire…
