experience

I’ve sent four kids — my son and three stepchildren — to college, so I thought I’d experienced almost everything in this process: campus visits, move-in and move-out, loans, roommate issues, and family weekends.As my youngest kid prepares for college, I thought there wouldn’t be many new experiences for me,…

When I was 20, I spent a summer working as a maid, cleaning houses.The hours were long, the pay was terrible, half the day was spent in traffic, and the work was frequently unappreciated by our clients.But the job did have one excellent benefit: I learned a lot about cleaning…

If you had told me a year ago that I’d be alone in the middle of the Agafay Desert, surrounded by strangers and riding camels, I would have thought you were crazy.As someone who spends all her time with family and friends, I rarely do things solo. But since graduating…