by Karen Justice | Mar 16, 2026 | Self Care
Next year will be the 40th anniversary of March being named Women’s History Month in the United States. Women have been making history much longer than that, but in 1978, a group of women in Santa Rosa, California, started “Women’s History Week.” That observance...read more
by Karen Justice | Jan 20, 2026 | Inspirational, Self Care
As you start the year, have you been thinking of resolutions, intentions, and goals? Perhaps there is a better place for your initial focus than your world of work and involvement, or even your health. Perhaps, the place to start is an inward look at your core values....read more
by Karen Justice | Apr 4, 2025 | Self Care
As the seasons change, the atmosphere becomes disrupted. Thunder and lightning bring noise and disruption to our days and drama to our nights. As life springs forward with the rain brought by flashes, crashes, and booms, do ideas also spring forward for you? Does this...read more
by Karen Justice | Aug 15, 2024 | Self Care
Most of us have heard the phrase, “Take time to smell the roses.” Let’s create a new phrase, “Look twice to see the details.” In our fast-paced world with our busy minds, we often pass through our daily spaces without really seeing them. With social media, we see the...read more
by Karen Justice | Aug 30, 2023 | Inspirational, Self Care
Summer Transition Students are back in school or soon will be. The last summer beach trips are wrapping up. Summer’s heat is vacillating during her last few weeks of 2023. For many of us, our moods are also vacillating. We’re transitioning into Fall. New projects will...read more
by Karen Justice | Jul 7, 2023 | Self Care
Roots There is much to be learned from the roots of things, including words. The word “vacation” has roots in medieval Anglo-French. Before that, the Anglo-French word had grown from the Latin words vacātiō and vacāre. Those words meant “respite from service” and “to...read more
