Juli Blogs

Many people I know, myself included, have children graduating in the next few weeks and I have heard the comments, “Now what do they do?” and “How can I get them ready for college?”

If you read last week’s column about helping your high school graduates learn how to make decisions, then they have a good start on becoming self-reliant. This week I am going to focus on living quarters.

This is second-to-last in a series for graduating high school seniors about getting organized and ready for college. This installment focuses on getting your stuff ready to take.

Before taking off for college, it is very important for you grads to start learning how to budget your time, and how to budget your money. These two subjects will serve you very well for the future.

There’s a temptation to let things go a bit for the summer as the weather makes us feel a little more lackadaisical. Vacations, kids home for the summer, visiting relatives and friends, summer holiday celebrations - all of this can contribute to disregarding the routines we strive to attain during the other months of the year.

Having previously been part of the wedding industry, I have seen the havoc certain wedding guests unwittingly create for soon-to-be-wed couples and their families. As wedding season is upon us, I hope addressing some of the common problems might help prevent them from actually occurring.

Last week’s article discussed how to respond to a wedding invitation and how to generally be respectful of the families that are planning this special event. So, now that you are attending, here are some tips on planning ahead for attending this wedding day.

This is the final article in this series, and it is about how guests should behave at the event itself. There are a few dos and don'ts for both the ceremony and reception that you should know about before you show up.

All of us who schedule any sort of appointment in their life could learn from this information, and if you have a business this may be of even more use to you.

I just finished a three-part series on weddings or, more specifically, being a wedding guest. This week, I am addressing a completely different topic: funerals. Hence, the title for this column.