I’ve always been a little bit impulsive. Or maybe I should say when I get an idea stuck in my head, I usually act on it, making my decisions quickly and decisively. The opposite is true for my husband, Tom. He took three years researching our first “real” television...

A good friend of mine’s daughter, Madison, began working for me when she was a junior in high school. She would come after school, learned how to cut panels, pinch pleats, work the front of the shop and just about anything else you could thinkof. She added a spark to...

It’s May again already. Graduation is in the air. You can almost smell the achievements and success; the promise of opportunities to come. Of course, you can also feel the stress of the looming “Graduation Party” planning. This was about where I was last year when our...