Point to ponder: How can you make the time and space to putter this summer? Friday was the summer solstice--the official start to summer- whew! And while I welcome and love a hot, sweaty and loosely scheduled summer, I have a love/hate relationship with it too. To get it out of the way, I’ll start with the negative first, which is that I don’t do well with the transition from an organized, routine, productive and predictable school year to a less scheduled summer and often ti

Point to ponder: This summer, are you making time to recharge? Even though summer should feel nothing but relaxing and consistently fun, the loosey-goosey nature of it, travel, expense of summer camps and vacations can bring about stress and anxiousness, and this can rob us of immediate joy, our quality of life and even negatively impact our health. Research shows that chronic stress and anxiety can shorten our life spans, speed aging and dramatically increase our risk of lif