April Masini’s Top 10 Opportunites to Create A New Family Ritual
1. Meals. Prepare a meal together on Sundays. Make it fun. Homemade pizza, chocolate cake, fondue (cheese and chocolate) — or whatever your family loves. Put bonding ahead of epicurean tastes. Cake mixes are fine if the kids can make them themselves. Make […]

Holiday Time is a good time of year to make employees feel appreciated, although, truly, this should happen every day. What is appropriate for companies varies. Big companies will do well to take a less personal approach because it’s not genuine to pretend to be personal once a year. At this time, big companies would […]

Consider your closet. Treat it like a sacred space, or treat it with the same TLC that
men treat their coveted cars and garages.
Excerpted from my book, Think & Date Like A Man:
Your closet is a place you go to several times a day to choose what you’re going to put on your body, yet […]

There are no rules for peoples’ reactions to the death of a loved one. A lot of their reaction has to do with the relationship, but more of their reaction has to do simply with the person that the mourner is — not the deceased.
* If a loved one is lost and the relationship […]