Our family loves to watch movies.  Love is not just an overstatement either!  We watch movies at the theater, at home and even purchase them sometimes.  One movie we were super excited to see land on our doorstep was Monsters University.  What a fun mo...

President Barack Obama’s efforts to protect educational opportunities for active-duty military, veterans and reservists have run squarely into the sequester. Other budget cuts at all levels of government are adding new challenges for military per...

I love watching Modern Family!  It is both light-hearted and funny.  I still can’t believe they have just released their fourth season on Blu-ray and DVD.  It seems like just yesterday they were in their first season on televi...

Do you know much about the Affordable Care Act?  I didn’t know that much about it until I participated in a webinar with Anthem Blue Cross and WellPoint spokesperson Ellie Kay and Patrick Blair the other day, thanks to The Motherhood.  Did you know tha...

This post was created in partnership with Asurion, but all thoughts are my own. School is back in session and what is on most kids’ wish lists this season?  Cell phones!  Not only are these on kids’ wish lists, but they are also on the pare...

I am so excited to have Featured Blogger Friday back!  As a blogger who’s been in the business for 5 years, I love “giving back” by putting other bloggers in the spotlight.  It also gives me a chance to get to know other bloggers out there in...

The new school year is just around the corner and Master Lock is here to help!  Did you know that seventy percent of college students own a laptop and other electronics, including smart phones and iPads, which are the most commonly stolen items on coll...

When I first moved to the Central Coast, I enrolled in General Education Courses and a Beginning Golf Course at our local community college.  The Golf Course was a lot of fun, even when I swung with all my might and missed the ball!  Then I got to play...

I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and their client. #ChooseSmart Here on the California Central Coast, Smart & Final is grow...

I remember how excited I was to get my first checkbook.  I was away at college and chose my very own checks with the image I wanted on them.  I chose the Whale Scenes checks.  I felt so grownup to have my own checkbook and be able to pay my own bills w...

We live here on the Central Coast and our local college basketball team is the Cal Poly Mustangs!  I love their colors – green and gold – which were perfect additions to create a fun get together with family and friends.  At our party, we f...

When reading an article on women taking control of their finances, I read something that peaked my interest.  Did you know that more than a third of American women are now the family breadwinner?  Although that is pretty awesome, women still tend to pa...

  We live here on the Central Coast and I have several friends who are avid Mustangs fans.  That’s right – Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo is our local college and they have both a men’s and women’s basketball team!  We were ex...

I love to travel and have been traveling since I was in junior high.  The first trip I took was to the gorgeous island of Maui (one of my Happy Places).  There I met a girl from Canada and we became friends and pen pals – which led to my next trip to A...

How many times do you remember as a child hearing your parents say, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day?”  Can you believe that today, nearly one in five children across our communities go without breakfast every day?    I know...

How do kids and teens get into the college of their dreams?  Break into the gaming industry?  Publish their own iPhone and Android Apps?  Design websites?  Create animated films?  Or build functioning robots?   Their game plan starts here. At iD Tech C...

Are you a fan of Disney’s Monsters Inc.?  Well, I have great news for you!  On June 21, 2013, Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan (aka Sulley) will be back on the big screen as they head to Monsters University (MU) to become the best Scarers ever...

Long-distance relationships are never easy, but there are usually unavoidable circumstances that keep two people apart for a while. So whether you’re away at school or working in another city, here are a few things you can do to keep the relationship h...

Growing up, my dad taught me about earning money and saving money.  We would earn an allowance and each time we came up on “pay day,” we set aside a certain amount that would go into savings.  This was back in the day when we would actually go into the...

When I was attending Junior College and working towards my AA degree, I had something happen in my life that changed my attitude towards protecting your identity.  I was in the school library, researching the symbols and their meanings on the dollar bi...