by Melissa Kascak | Mar 6, 2025 | Fit Yourself In
No one would ever think to describe me as an athlete. I was never one to get sweaty in PE or sign up for team sports. Currently, my idea of a workout is a 4-mile speed walk with my friend. I didn’t even learn to ride a bike until I was twelve years old… So when I was...
by Melissa Kascak | Feb 19, 2025 | Work-Life Balance
Laundry is an insufferable, eternal nightmare. Laundry laughs in the face of the concept of ‘inbox zero.’ Anyone fortunate enough to have clothes to wash knows the truth of this burden. So imagine me locking up for the night a few weeks ago, and I noticed an eerie...
by Melissa Kascak | Feb 5, 2025 | Work-Life Balance
You never know what lessons you might learn from twenty-year-old nonsense at the bottom of your drawer. Walking through the mall circa 2005, I was minding my own business, and this woman at a kiosk grabbed my attention and hard-sold me this nail treatment kit I had no...
by Melissa Kascak | Jan 22, 2025 | Work-Life Balance
As lovely a person my dental hygienist is, I don’t consider my cleanings as ‘me time.’ My dental hygienist told me that she’s heard from plenty of moms that going to the dentist is a welcome reprieve from the chaos at home. They look forward to the relaxation of...
by Melissa Kascak | Jan 8, 2025 | Work-Life Balance
Some hear noise pollution; I hear an invitation to listen more deeply. Years ago, a neighbor told me she wanted to move because she could hear the highway, and it drove her crazy. The highway? That was not something that bothered me from my house, even though we lived...
