Lessons from Embroidery; Sought with thimbles and care

Accomplishment, inspiration, frustration – all words that come to mind after I spent the past month trying out embroidery. And let me be perfectly clear I mean good old-fashioned, patience testing, bleeding fingers, 100% by hand embroidery.

Stock Market Insights

Retail Investors Are Ignoring Risk—and Driving the Market Anyway We used to ride ATVs under the bridge where I grew up. My uncles and I would build a racetrack and run them hard. One thing I quickly figured out was to watch the path ahead of me and the other riders who might stop suddenly or crash.

For the Children

Children Thrive When Parents Are In Their Lives Over the past few years, a national movement has taken off in many states to establish a hardened rule in the law that 50/50 custody is in the best interest of the children of divorce.Such laws have passed recently in Arizona, Kentucky.

Working Through the Next Phase of Session

Things are moving quickly at the Capitol as we work through another key phase of session. Right now, we are focused on reviewing Senate bills in oversight committees while continuing to hear and vote on measures on the House floor.

Adventures with Allie

There’s a certain kind of quiet you only find in a small-town library.Not the stiff, intimidating quiet people joke about, no stern shushing or side-eyes over a turned page, but a soft, steady kind of quiet. The kind that makes room for imagination. The kind that feels like being safe.

Stock Market Insights

Bank Earnings: What It Told Us About the Economy Last weekend, I was coaching my kids’ youth baseball team in a tournament. They didn’t play perfect baseball, far from it.

Home Grown

Collecting Rainwater for Gardens As gardeners look for ways to conserve resources, rainwater harvesting is gaining in popularity. Capturing rainfall not only reduces dependence on municipal water supplies, but also provides plants with a natural, chemicalfree source of water.

Early Budget Agreement Mostly Good for State’s Children

For the Children Gov. Kevin Stitt and Republican leaders from the state Legislature announced a budget agreement last week. The Fiscal Year 27 (FY27) budget proposal totals $12.8 billion, an increase of 1.52% or nearly $200 million over the current fiscal year's budget.

First Bill Advances as House Meets Key Deadline

This past week marked a major turning point in session as we reached the deadline to pass House bills off the House floor. It took a lot of time, focus and more than a few late nights, but we got the job done.All House bills have now been sent to the Senate, with 456 measures continuing forward.

Adventures with Allie

There’s a moment now, quiet, almost invisible, when you walk into a place that used to hand you something, and instead, it asks you to scan.A small square sits where paper once lived. A QR code taped to a church door. Another propped up on a restaurant table.