Lessons My Aunt Taught About Living a Happy Life
Janice Weinsoff2024-05-29T14:40:17-04:00Lessons to Learn In December 2023, my 95-year-old aunt passed away. This came as a shock because she appeared healthy. Her positive outlook on life was [...]
Words of Inspiration for 2024
Janice Weinsoff2024-01-12T13:00:06-05:00A Mindful New Year It is that time of year. Resolutions can be complicated. Traditionally, we choose to give up a bad habit, add good habits, be more pr [...]
Essential Legal Documents For Your Adult Child
Janice Weinsoff2023-05-16T16:13:10-04:00Why I Feel Strongly About Having Legal Documents As a widow, I am passionate about sharing lessons learned. My husband passed unexpectedly. Fortunately, [...]
What We Learned About Caring for Our Aging Parents
Janice Weinsoff2023-03-21T10:34:14-04:00The Information You Need To Know Being the caregiver for your aging parents is complicated. It requires patience, compassion, planning, and tough love. [...]
Tips for Dealing With Chaotic Air Travel ✈
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-19T13:08:20-04:00In 2021, a friend invited me to go with her to Sweden, her homeland. It took me all of two seconds to accept. I even said, “I’ve been waiting over 35 ye [...]
Update Your Legal Docs
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-09T11:52:02-04:00For Yourself and Your Kids Eight years ago, my husband passed away unexpectedly. If this experience taught me anything, it is important to have ALL of y [...]
“New Birth” Day
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-04T16:23:42-04:00How Do You Acknowledge the Date of Passing? For those of us who have lost someone, as the date of death approaches each year, it is triggering. Recently [...]
The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Roe v Wade
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-04T16:24:41-04:00How Did The Supreme Court Rule It's official. Roe v Wade is overturned. Five judges changed that. The leaked documents were a precursor to what was comi [...]
Why I Am Pro Choice
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-04T16:25:01-04:00This week has been upsetting with news of the leaked brief from the Supreme Court of Justices regarding Roe vs. Wade. I am unabashedly pro-choice. My po [...]
Come On, Be Happy 😀
Janice Weinsoff2022-08-04T16:25:34-04:00Wouldn’t it be great to wake up happy every day? To go through our daily lives without a care in the world. And not let situations steal your happiness. [...]
It’s Time To Compromise
Janice Weinsoff2022-05-27T16:42:13-04:00People Government And, Finding Common Ground Not even 24 hours after the Texas elementary school shooting, politicians on both sides of the aisle began [...]
What Is Your Personal Style?
Janice Weinsoff2023-05-31T15:38:15-04:00What are the ways you show your personal style? Through tattoos? Piercings? Jewelry? Perhaps your personal style is reflected in the clothes you wear. O [...]
Lessons I Learned From Becoming A Widow
Janice Weinsoff2022-03-24T14:35:08-04:00Tips for Navigating A Difficult Time Life is full of learning moments, some within our control, and some not. My life changed literally in the blink of [...]
Ready to Remodel Your Home?
Janice Weinsoff2022-11-07T13:30:26-05:00Tips to Save Money and Time The current real estate surge favors sellers, with demand exceeding supply. We’ve all heard stories of multiple offers made [...]
And Just Like That
Janice Weinsoff2023-02-17T16:22:18-05:00A New Chapter In the SATC reboot "And Just Like That, we get to catch up with Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and supporting cast members. Tbh, get it. Lif [...]
How We Celebrated Turning 60
Janice Weinsoff2022-01-12T20:29:18-05:00Reaching Another Milestone Birthday As I sit back and reflect on the positives and negatives of 2021, I can't help but feel grateful. Grateful for being [...]
Lessons From the Ukraine Crisis
Janice Weinsoff2022-10-03T13:10:31-04:00What Will We Learn? It is heartbreaking watching Russia’s attack on Ukraine. President Zelensky stated this is an attack on all of us, our freedom, and [...]
A Mindful New Year
Janice Weinsoff2022-10-03T13:13:11-04:00What Are Your Traditions? And just like that, it is time to bring in the new year. Many of us ring in the new year with a resolution. I am looking forwa [...]
To Wish Was To Hope
Janice Weinsoff2021-11-30T11:22:37-05:00... And To Hope Was To Expect" - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Do you make wishes? I've definitely made my fair share. Jane Austen said, to wish w [...]
The Act of Forgiveness
Janice Weinsoff2021-10-13T16:23:38-04:00Early Stages of Learning Forgiveness As children, we often learn that if we apologize for something we did wrong, all will be forgiven. I have many memo [...]
Pescatarian & Proud
Janice Weinsoff2021-09-17T16:02:27-04:00Only From the Sea. If it Lives on Land Not For Me In 2013, I became a pescatarian. Basically, this means I get most of my protein from eating seafood, n [...]
Why I Am A Health Research Study Volunteer
Janice Weinsoff2021-09-20T11:45:54-04:00What's It About? Before vaccines become available to the general population over the age of 12, they need to be tested. Worldwide pharmaceutical compani [...]
Bathroom Makeover: Wash Your Troubles Away
Janice Weinsoff2021-11-10T10:45:02-05:00Creating A Tranquil Space When you purchase a home, as I did, hopefully, you've built in any renovations that need to be done. I bought my house knowing [...]
Kitchen Remodel: Seasoned With Love
Janice Weinsoff2021-11-10T10:45:20-05:00“Kitchens Should Be Designed Around What’s Truly Important” - Chef Daniel Boulud My kitchen is my happy place. So when it came time to design exactly wh [...]
Signs from Heaven
Janice Weinsoff2021-08-10T14:01:48-04:00Messages Received By now, if you have read my blogs, you know I am a very spiritual person. Reincarnation, regression, metaphysics, karma, and mediums.. [...]
Getting My Balance Back
Janice Weinsoff2021-08-05T14:25:54-04:00My Path To Spirituality There have been several times in my life that I have lost my spiritual balance. It has taken hard work to get my balance back. B [...]
Dealing With Grief
Janice Weinsoff2021-08-16T12:52:25-04:00The Beginning of Widowhood It has been seven years since I became a widow yet strangely it feels like yesterday. Vivid are the details of that day, fore [...]
Breaking from Jewish Tradition
Janice Weinsoff2021-07-21T17:24:44-04:00A Celebration of Life In the Jewish religion, there is a Jewish tradition when a person passes. For my daughters and I, we needed to decide whether to b [...]
Aye Aye, Captain
Janice Weinsoff2021-07-15T13:54:17-04:00Life Interrupted The last three words I said to my husband were Aye Aye Captain. Of course, I had no way of knowing that those words would be the last w [...]
I Am An Empty Nester… Again
Janice Weinsoff2021-06-21T10:09:33-04:00After The Pandemic March 12, 2020. This is the day I became a re-nester after the global pandemic. Fifteen months later, they have moved out. I am an em [...]
Have a Child Going to College?
Janice Weinsoff2022-06-03T15:57:39-04:00Get These 3 Legal Documents Ready HaveUHeard that once your child reaches the age of 18, they are considered a legal adult. Without the proper legal for [...]
From Empty Nesting to Re-Nesting
Janice Weinsoff2021-05-14T13:40:51-04:00What It Was Like Living With My Adult Daughters Empty-nesting to re-nesting to empty nesting again and back to re-nesting. The amount of times my living [...]
Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods
Janice Weinsoff2021-10-02T15:33:28-04:00From One of Fort Lauderdale’s First to Know My Uncle Lou could be considered a real estate mogul in Fort Lauderdale. Born and raised in Miami, he moved [...]
The Sandwich Generation
Janice Weinsoff2022-06-03T16:02:54-04:00What Does This Mean? The term Sandwich Generation describes many of us even if you have not heard the term before. We are finding ourselves stretched th [...]
Do You Have Plantar Fasciitis?
Janice Weinsoff2023-03-31T16:21:33-04:00It May Be Plantar Fasciitis Have you ever woken up with foot pain? It may be plantar fasciitis. It has been over three years since I was diagnosed. Fort [...]
Life is Complicated
Janice Weinsoff2023-06-30T14:52:47-04:00For the past four years, my business partner and I have run the blog HaveUHeard. Its premise is that College Is Complicated. We set out to provide insider information from current students and parents; a been there, done that approach from trusted sources so that other parents would have this virtual village all in one location. If I learned one thing over the past four years (trust me, I learned a lot more than one thing) is that it truly does take a village.
Do-Good Brands to Do Good By
Janice Weinsoff2023-05-31T15:35:28-04:00My first awareness of a do-good brand supporting a social issue was Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. I was too young to be impressed with anything other than their amazing ice cream but since their onset, they have adhered to their mission while still making amazing ice cream. Today, I am keenly aware of the social issues that brands get behind.
Are Your Family Dynamics Changing?
Michelle Balaun2021-02-02T13:13:32-05:00When we dropped our daughter off at college, her dad and I and her younger sister drove away, tears streaming down our faces (well not her sister’s face). We’d return home as a family of three which took on a whole new personality. This was the first of many life shifts I came to understand. It took some time for us to adjust to the empty chair at the dinner table and to cooking for three and only having to chauffeur one child around. It was different. Not good different, not bad different … just different.
Hanukkah Decor 2022
Janice Weinsoff2024-10-14T13:27:31-04:00Hanukkah Past I've just completed my Hanukkah Decor 2022. I love decorating for Hanukkah. I mean, I go all out. A silver, blue & gold Hanukkah tree [...]
2021 Hanukkah Table Decor
Janice Weinsoff2024-10-14T13:28:21-04:00What Inspired My Table Decor? My intention for the holidays this year is to make it warm & inviting and joyful. To be honest, after a toned-down Han [...]