THEMED planning is simple. It takes the concept of list making to a different level.

How many of you find that your "to do" list has become a royal pain in the neck? Some days I just didn't want to make a list because I didn"t want to do those things on it. Ah ha! I said it! It can become so daunting, right? What I found I needed to do was see the big picture through the minutia.

If you are reading this, then you just survived the first of the holidays this season... Thanksgiving! Now that it is over and Chanukah is in full gear, you can get ready for the end of the year.

When Spring Break arrives, for many, everything else in life comes to a halt. We drop our normal routines. Our schedules become more relaxed, and not much may get done. And that's the way it should be. This goes along with the old saying, "Stop and smell the daisies."

It was a Sunday night, and my 9 year-old computer had been behaving badly for many months. It took forever for it to go from one program to another, and always with the rainbow spinning "wheel of death" just spinning, and spinning, and then sometimes turning into the blue spinning "wheel of death."