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For my real estate friends who don’t quite know how to explain commission to their clients, here is my take on it. I have a bit of a background, having […]

We read to each other in the evenings. We started this tradition when David and I first met. He read out loud to me, starting with The Foundation Series by […]

If I had written a Christmas letter for 2014, which I didn’t, I would have had to start with events at the end of 2013. Our daughter was nominated to […]

When I was in my twenties I tripped on a piece of broken walkway in front of a restaurant. I fell hard on the cement and cut open my chin. […]

In September of 1978 one of my grandmother’s friends was moving to a nursing home and she gave me her “special occasion” table cloth. She had received it as a […]

Learning about life is an on-going process. Just when you think you have it down, something new comes along to tell you there are more things to learn. The lesson […]

Back to the blog. It has been some time since I have posted. I started working on a few other business ventures and this creative outlet went on the back […]

Home is where the heart is. At least that’s what “they” say. You know who “they” are, the ubiquitous “they”. I rarely trust what “they” say, “they” have lead me […]

This is a snow flower. Its scientific name is Sarcodes sanguinea. It does not use photosynthesis since it is actually a parasite, receiving nutrients from fungi that attach to tree […]

We had a mild Winter. Mild is an understatement, it was virtually non-existent. A true, big-time drought. We skipped Spring, too, and went straight into Summer. It is warm, the […]

Spring at Tahoe is snow, sun, rain, snain (that’s a mixture of snow and rain), wind, calm, breeze, and other weather patterns we don’t think of until they happen. This […]

My daughter graduates from high school this year and yet the types of things hidden for the Easter morning hunt don’t change. There is still the stuffed bunny, the chocolate […]

Today I called my cousin, Gina. We connect on Facebook but it has actually been years since we spoke, voice to voice. When we were little we were together all […]

Yesterday I did a long drive. I left my house a little after lunch, drove four and a half hours, had dinner to celebrate a friend’s birthday, and drove home. […]

Once I ask you to ignore the monkeys, you can no longer ignore the monkeys. They are banging on the window, they are making noise. If you leave the house […]

  The Internet probably has more videos and pictures devoted to cats than any other subject. A dog may be man’s best friend but a cat is the Internet darling. […]

This evening my husband and I went to a coffee tasting at Starbucks along with about fifteen other coffee lovers. There was plenty of information about the different types of coffee […]

Spring is early this year at Lake Tahoe. People are paddle boarding, hiking, and spending lots of time outside. It is common to have plenty of snow on the ground […]

My daughter called me on Friday with the all-important question: “Where can I get pie?” I gave her a few suggestions, along with my question, “why?” Friday was pie day, […]

The first book I wrote was The Everything Homeselling Book, From the Open House to Closing the Deal, All You Need to Get the Most Money for Your Home! I […]

It has been two months since I stepped away from being a full-time real estate agent to pursue other paths. When you have done something for 25 years, making that […]

Welcome to Incline Living. Please keep checking back for new information. Here is a picture of me in Istanbul, one of my favorite cities. Travel is one of my passions!