The Things that Matter

The comedian George Carlin once said, A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. Nate Berkus couldn’t disagree more. In his book, The Things That Matter, Berkus...

The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups

Well researched with a personalized touch, this book brings to light the troubles early education is presenting to our youth, and how that will impact an entire generation. Being an early childhood educator and...

THE CANINE HEROES OF 9/11

100 search and rescue dogs were deployed to the World Trade Center and Pentagon in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. These heroic canines worked with heroic emergency service workers and firemen to search tirelessly...

Read My Mind: Do You Ever Really Know What Someone Else is Thinking?

I love this speech and cannot resist sharing it with you. It is the remarks that Joe Biden gave to the graduating class at Yale in 2015. He tells a powerful story of how our beliefs...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

There is a good reason this book is a number one seller. This tidy manifesto has the power to change your life my encouraging a zen style de-cluttering and approach to stuff. If you...

Table Manners: How to Behave in the Modern World and Why Bother

For every young person, woman and man, world traveler or homebody, who needs brushing up on their manners, this is the perfect gift. This book presents the importance of values in a witty and...